Blurb:

This chapter shows how by the middle of the first millennium BC, a new group from the east -- the Achaemenids, the ruling dynasty of the Persian empire, wrested power in Egypt. Topics covered include:


- the Medes and the Persians


- Cyrus the Great


- Camyses II and the conquest of Egypt


- Darius I


- administering the empire


- Darius I in Egypt


- Egyptian rebellion against the Persians


- the Egyptian rebellion of 486 BC


- the return of Egyptian independence