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by Minimalist » Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:26 pm
Egypt had little success after Rameses III. History tells us only of Sheshonq I, who campaigned into Canaan c 925 BC but apparently was unable to restore Egypt's prior hegemony over the region, and, Psammetichus and his son Necho of the 26th Dynasty, who tried c 610 to expand to the north in the wake of the Assyrian withdrawal only to be crushed by the Babylonians at the Battle of Carchemish. Necho is the pharoah who summoned the Judahite king, Josiah, to a meeting where he had him killed.
After that, it was one foreign conqueror after another as Egypt spiralled down until Octavius finally reduced it to provincial status in 30 BC.
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