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Book: First Civilizations

Chapter: 16 Egypt in the late second and first millenniums BC

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.18674

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

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