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Depiction: Artaxerxes I
Image: Guillaume Rouillé (ca. 1518–1589), Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (resized)

Late Period · 27th Dynasty (First Persian rule)

Artaxerxes I

Reign
465–424 BC
Dynasty
27th Dynasty (First Persian rule)
Period
Late Period, 664–332 BC
Capital at the time
Sais, Memphis

Artaxerxes I is listed in the king list under ‘27th Dynasty (First Persian rule)’ and so belongs to this period: Late Period (664–332 BC). Reign: 465–424 BC.

What is known about Artaxerxes I

Defeated a combined army of Egyptians, Libyans and Greeks at the Battle of Papremis.

From the German Wikipedia list of pharaohs, CC BY-SA 4.0, translated and edited.

The period: Late Period

Under the kings from Sais, Egypt flourishes once more and deliberately looks back to the art of the Old Kingdom. Twice the country becomes part of the Persian Empire; in between, the last native pharaohs rule.

More about this period: Late Period

27th Dynasty (First Persian rule): all rulers

Further reading

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