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  Ancient Egypt - MSN Encarta
As a daughter of a pharaoh (Thutmose I) and the wife of one (Thutmose II), Hatshepsut took full control of the throne as the ruling pharaoh during her reign.
The 22nd Dynasty (945-712 bc), centered at Bubastis in the western delta, clearly reflected an earlier Libyan presence in Egypt.
In the 7th century bc, Psamtik I, ruling at first from Sais, reunited the land in 664 bc, ushering in the 26th Dynasty and the Late Period.
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  660s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
664 BC - Psammetichus I succeeds Necho I as king of Lower Egypt
664 BC - Death of Necho I, king of Egypt
663 BC - Death of Taharqa, king of Egypt
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 Egyptvoyager.com: The Complex of Karnak - Luxor, Egypt
The sphinxes date to the reign of Ramesses II (1290-1224 BC) of the 19th Dynasty, although some archaeologists believe that they may even be older and date to the reign of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC).
The small chapel immediately to the left of the entrance, behind the unfinished northern tower of the 1st Pylon, was built by Seti II (1214-1204 BC) of the 19th Dynasty as a resting-place for the barks of the Theban triad that were carried around during some festivals.
The southern wall of the Open Court is interrupted by a small temple, constructed during the reign of Ramesses III (1194-1163 BC) of the 20th Dynasty.
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 Taharqa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taharqa (also spelled Tirhakah, Taharka, Manetho's Tarakos) was king of Egypt, and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, whose reign is usually dated 690 BC to 664 BC.
His first attack in 677 BC, aimed to pacify Arab tribes around the Dead Sea, led him as far as the Brook of Egypt.
Taharqa fled to the south, and Esarhaddon reorganized the political scene in the north, establishing Necho I of the 26th dynasty as king at Sais.
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 Cat
Egyptians kept cats as pets as early as the 4th millennium BC.
This bronze sculpture was probably a coffin for a cat; the mummy of the cat would have been inserted into the bottom of the base.
The cat represents the Goddess Bast, the daughter of the sun-god.
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 Plazma's Ages - Egyptian Culture
Agriculture was brought to the Nile Valley prior to 5000 BC by immigrants from the highlands of Palestine.
Around 1300 BC the Nubians suffered an important defeat and were neutralized as a threat for about 500 years.
A new native Egyptian dynasty arose in 664 BC, eventually throwing out the Nubians and asserting their independence from Assyria by stopping payment of tribute.
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 Taharqa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A number of explanations have been proposed: one is that the title of king in the biblical text refers to his later title, when at the time of this account he was likely only a military commander.
His first attack in 677 BC, aimed to pacify Arab tribes around the (A saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level) Dead Sea, led him as far as the (Click link for more info and facts about Brook of Egypt) Brook of Egypt.
Taharqa defeated the Assyrians on that occasion, but three years later (671 BC) the Assyrian king captured and sacked (An ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo)) Memphis, where he captured numerous members of the royal family.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taharqa.htm   (504 words)

  
 Necho I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
672 BC–664 BC) was governor of the Egyptian city of Sais.
His rule lasted only two years as Necho I of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt, but before Egypt was reunified.
He was installed as ruler by Assurbanipal around 654 BC, but he may have ruled prior to this event.
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 Qin Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, ...
BC 659-621) in escorting him to the throne at Jinn, with a promise of seceding to Qin 8 cities to the west of Yellow River.
In the autumn of 636 BC, the brother of Zhou King Xiangwang, Shu-dai, hired the Di barbarians in attacking the Zhou court.
In 473 B.C., the Wu Principality was annexed by Yüeh.
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 Untitled Document
In the early sixth century BC, the statues had stood inside the great Amun temple at Gebel Barkal, but at some point they had been deliberately overthrown, their bodies broken, their heads split from their necks, their crowns fragmented, and their faces marred.
The composition of the Egyptian army that invaded Kush in 593 BC is indicated by a series of graffiti still visible on the legs of the colossi of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, which the troops marked as they passed by the temple on their way back home.
With the return of his victorious army to Egypt, Psammeticus, now secure on his throne, ordered all the visible monuments of the Kushite kings in Egypt to be defaced or destroyed, or to have their names cut off and his own inserted where theirs had been.
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 Egypt: History - Dynasty XXVI (Twenty-sixth Dynasty)
By 616 BC it had become clear to Psammetichus that an alliance between Medians and Babylonians would be more dangerous than the Assyrians had ever been, so he decided to throw in his lot with his former enemies.
The decision was unfortunate because in 612 BC Niniveh fell and was ravaged and looted with characteristic thoroughness.
In 539 BC Babylon was occupied, Cyrus with characteristic wisdom sparing the king's life and relegating him to distant Carmania either as governor or as exile.
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 Egyptian History
Dynasty 22 - 945-712 BC at Tanis (Libyan or Bubastite)
In 665 BC Tanutamun rebells and Thebes is sacked and its temple treasury taken in 663 BC.
In 490 BC Darius' army was defeated by the Greeks at Marathon.
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 All Empires - The Elamite Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1750 BC) was not to be denied, and Elam was crushed in 1764 BC.
1266 BC), the fourth king of this line, proceeded apace, and his successes were commemorated by his assumption of the title "Expander of the Empire." He was succeeded by his son, Untash-Gal (Untash (d) Gal, or Untash-Huban), a contemporary of Shalmaneser I of Assyria (c.
In 742 BC a certain Huban-nugash is mentioned as king in Elam.
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 Ancient Egypt with pics
In 27 BC a strong earthquake devastated the Theban temples, while in the Greco-Roman world the cult of Isis and Osiris gradually displaced Amon.
After the brief rule of Smenkhkare (1335-32 BC), possibly a son of Akhenaton, utankhaten, a nine-year-old child, succeeded and was married to the much older Ankhesenpaaten, Akhenaton's third daughter.
BC, until the time of the Roman Empire; the latest hieroglyphic inscription dates from AD 394.
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 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt
About 3000 BC the Upper Egyptian cultures seem to have taken over the northern ones, leading to the development of a unified state; the identity of the first king is uncertain, but Narmer and Aha are possibilities.
By 664 BC the Kushites had been expelled from Egypt by the Assyrians; they withdrew to the Middle Nile area, where their culture continued to flourish for another thousand years.
Between the fourth century BC and the fourth century AD, Kushite monuments display a rich mixture of Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, and indigenous African architectural and artistic styles, and the Kushites began to write their own, as yet undeciphered, language, known as Meroitic.
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 660s BC
668 BC - Death of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria
February 11 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 Ancient Nubia: Map and History of Rulers
Taharqa's twenty six year reign (690-664 BC) stands out from any other in the Third Intermediate Period by the extent of the building program he implemented in the first sixteen years of his reign, and the extent of the fighting with the Assyrians in the later years.
By 653 BC, Nubian 25th Dynasty dominance of Egypt was at an end, and also the old dynastic culture that the Nubians tried to restore.
Nubian dignitaries in the Tomb of Huy, 1320 BC
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 Encyclopedia: 698 BC
Decades: 740s BC 730s BC 720s BC 710s BC 700s BC - 690s BC - 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC 640s BC This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them.
697 BC - Death of Zhou huan wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
691 BC - King Sennacherib of Assyria defeats king Humban-nimena of Elam in the Battle of Halule.
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 A Chronology of India ~ to 500 BC
The subcontinent of India, drifting northwards, merged with Eurasia and raised the Himalaya about 40 million years ago; yet it remains a veritable island, connected by a land-bridge less than 50 km wide, which is dominated by the omphalos of Kailas-Manasarovara.
The earliest traces of humanity extend as far as 400,000 years before the present, and human settlement of the forests of this land followed a pattern of mainly agricultural villages that persists today.
Lao-Tzu (the founder of Taoism) was born in 605 BC ~ living until 520 BC.
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 664 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In general, firearms, even those legally registered in the U.S., cannot be brought into a country unless a permit is first obtained from the embassy or a consulate of that country and the firearm is registered with foreign authorities on arrival.
In such a 664 BC, a Travel Warning is issued for the country in addition to its Consular Information Sheet.
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 Ancient Coins, Seals and Egyptian Antiquities - Liveauctioneers
Ancient and Antique glass bead necklace with beads from c.2nd century BC to 19th Century.
Rome, c.1st Century BC - 1st Century AD.
mid 2nd millennium B.C. A large "toy" ram, hollow with pierced legs to hold the four wheels, one at the end of each leg....
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 THE LATE PERIOD
By 660 BC, he had control of the entire Delta region, and through diplomatic means and military force had mastered the control of the rest of the country by 656 BC.
In 525 BC, the Persians invaded Egypt, capturing and defeating Psamtek III at the Battle of Pelusium.
It was during the reign of the Persian Emperor Artaxerxes II (405-359 BC), that the first major attempt to recover the country was made.
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 Africa to 1500 by Sanderson Beck
During the reign of Kushite king Nastasen from 328 to 308 BC the Meroites began to use their own hieroglyphs, which were soon followed by a Meroitic alphabet and script.
About 1500 BC horses were introduced in the Sahara from Egypt; about a thousand years later the camel was imported from Arabia, and soon after that the desert was too dry for horses and was increasingly abandoned by people as well.
In the 6th century BC religious reforms purified the culture somewhat and transformed the autocratic monarchy to an aristocratic oligarchy.
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 Egypt The New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, 1552-664 B.C. - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural ...
Around the year 1600 B.C., a semi-autonomous Theban dynasty under the suzerainty of the Hyksos became determined to drive the Shepherd Kings out of the country and extend its own power.
The country was liberated from the Hyksos and unified by Ahmose (ruled 1570-1546 B.C.), the son of the last ruler of the Seventeenth Dynasty.
Through the intensive military campaigns of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1490-1436 B.C.), Palestine, Syria, and the northern Euphrates area in Mesopotamia were brought within the New Kingdom.
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 Articles - 7th century BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
Gyges of Lydia (reigned 687 - 652 BC).
Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 641-609 BC).
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 demotic script --  Encyclopædia Britannica
By the 5th century BC, demotic script had come into use everywhere in Egypt for business and literary purposes, although hieratic remained in...
Derived from the earlier, pictorial hieroglyphic writing used in carved or painted inscriptions, hieratic script was generally written in ink with a reed pen on papyrus; its cursive form was more suited to such a medium than were the formal hieroglyphs.
The decree, written in Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphs, was promulgated March 7, 238 BC, by an assemblage of priests in honour of Ptolemy Euergetes and his consort Berenice.
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 Auction 84, pt. Hasso von Winning Collection - Liveauctioneers
Late Dynastic, Dynasty XXVI - XXX, 664 - 343 BC.
300-100 BC, a large grayish buff carved stone fertility goddess with incised and simplistic design.
Late Dynastic, XXVIth XXXth Dynasty, 664 343 BC.
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 Lorne Mayencourt, MLA -- Speeches & Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It could be a centre that works proactively with other post-secondary educational institutions in B.C. to do research and promote everyone's goal of peaceful societies.
We received that money through B.C. Housing, and that was very much appreciated by, well, not just Lookout Aid Society and myself but also by the 70 people that are going to live in that building.
Roots of Empathy is a program that we have in about 250 B.C. schools, where a parent brings their baby into a classroom and children have the opportunity to interact with the infant.
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 Dynasties 25 - Late Kingdom - Piye, Shebaka, Shebitku, Taharqa, Tantamani
Taharqa - 690-664 BC Taharqa was the brother of Shebitku and was the third king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
It is thought that Taharqa died in 664 BC and was buried in his pyramid at Nuri near Napata.
Tantamani 664-657 BC Tanwetamani (Assyrian Tandamane or Tantamani, Greek Tementhes, also known as Tanutamun) was Egypt's last ruler of the 25th Dynasty as well as the last Nubain (Kushite) Ruler, ruling from about 664 to 657 BC.
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 Egypt - The Late Period C.664332 bc - Travel Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Known as the Saite Dynasty after its capital at Sais in the Delta, this was the last great age of pharaonic civilization, harking back to the glories of the Old Kingdom in art and architecture, but also adopting new technologies and allowing colonies of Greek merchants at Naucratis, and Jewish mercenaries at Elephantine.
Necho II (610-595 BC) defeated Josiah, King of Judah, at Megiddo, but was routed by the Babylonians.
Though Psammetichus II (595-589 BC) enjoyed several victories, his successor Apries was overthrown following defeat in Cyrenacia, the throne passing to Amasis "the Drunkard", who relied on Greek allies to stave off the Persian empire.
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