Book: First Civilizations
Chapter: 16 Egypt in the late second and first millenniums BC
Blurb:
This chapter looks at how a series of invasions beginning about halfway through its 3000-year history affected Egyptian life. Topics include:
- the coming of the Libyans
- the Sea Peoples
- Egypt and the end of the New Kingdom
- the Third Intermediate Period
- Egypt under Libyan rule
- Egypt returns to Asia
- Kush and Assyria: the struggle for Egypt
- Assyria in Egypt
- Necho II: the Sea King
- foreign policy in Syria-Palestine
- the last great Pharoh
- the death of King Amasis II