Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Necho II

King Necho

Is one of the successors of "Psamtik I", and has worked on re-digging the canal, which

The link between the Nile and the Red Sea (channel Sisostris), even expanding Egypt

In its foreign trade. Send "Necho" Mission of the Phoenicians to orbit

Africa, it took three years, and succeeded in doing so.




A bronze statue of Necho II, kept in the Brooklyn Museum



End of pharaonic rule to Egypt

Renaissance filed by collapsed King "
Psamtik I" and his successors, at the hands of the Persians

Who invaded the country in 525 BC. Egypt  made part of their empire.

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