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Shebitku in Wikipedia

Shebitku (or Shabatka) was the third king of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt who ruled from (707/706 BC-690 BC) according to Dan'el Kahn's most recent academic research.[3] He was the nephew and successor of Shabaka. He was a son of Piye, the founder of this dynasty. Shebitku's prenomen or throne name, Djedkare, means "Enduring is the Soul of R...

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Sheshonk I in Wikipedia

Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq I (Egyptian ššnq), also known as Sheshonk or Sheshonq I (for discussion of the spelling, see Shoshenq), was a Meshwesh Berber king of Egypt-of Libyan ancestry[2]-and the founder of the Twenty- second Dynasty. Shoshenq I was the son of Nimlot A, Great Chief of the Ma, and his wife Tentshepeh A, a daughter of a Great...

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Osorkon II in Wikipedia

Usermaatre Setepenamun Osorkon II was a pharaoh[1] of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and the son of Takelot I and Queen Kapes. He ruled Egypt around 872 BC to 837 BC from Tanis, the capital of this Dynasty. After succeeding his father, he was faced with the competing rule of his cousin, king Harsiese A, who controlled both Thebes and...

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Shoshenq IV in Tour Egypt

SHOSHENQ IV (AKHEPERRE-SETEPENRE) 773-735 B.C. 22ND DYNASTY Shoshenq IV was the ninth king of the Twenty-second Dynasty. The Serapeum stela of Pasenhor is dated as the thirty-seventh year of Shoshenq IV. This shows that he reigned at least this long. In the year 732, toward the end of his reign, an Assyrian, Tiglath- pileser III took Damascus an...

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Wahkare Bakenranef in Tour Egypt

WAHKARE BAKENRANEF 720-715 B.C. 24TH DYNASTY Bakenranef was the second king of the Twenty-fourth Dynasty. His name was found on a vase that was found in an Etruscan tomb at Tarquinia which is located 100 kilometers northwest of Rome. Papyrus plants on the vase suggest the area of the Delta. He is shown in the company of gods and goddesses, such...

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Taharqa in Tour Egypt

TAHARQA 690-664 B.C. 25TH DYNASTY Taharqa was the brother of Shebitku and was the third king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Shebitku died and Taharqa was crowned. Taharqa is responsible for building done both in Nubia as well as Egypt. He built the colonnade in the first court of the temple of Amun at Karnak. There is one column that stands twe...

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Osorkon I in Tour Egypt

OSORKON (SEKHEMKHEPERRE-SETEPENRE) 924-909 B.C. 22ND DYNASTY Osorkon I is in the second king of the Twenty-second Dynasty. Between the reigns of Osorkon I and Takelot I, a Shoshenq II is often shown as a co-regent for a brief period of time....

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Takelot II in Tour Egypt

TAKELOT II (HEDJKHEPERRE-SETEPENRE) 860-835 B.C. 22ND DYNASTY Takelot II was the sixth king of the Twenty-second Dynasty. He was the father to the high priest of Amun, Osorkon. This Osorkon was responsible for the longest inscription on the Bubastite Gate. According to his inscription, during the fifteenth year of Takelot's reign, there was war...

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Shoshenq IV in Wikipedia

Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq IV ruled Egypt's 22nd Dynasty between the reigns of Shoshenq III and Pami. This Pharaoh's existence was first argued by David Rohl[citation needed] but the British Egyptologist Aidan Dodson settled the issue in a seminal GM 137(1993) article.[1] Dodson's arguments here for the existence of a new Tanite king called ...

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Bakenranef in Wikipedia

Bakenranef, known by the ancient Greeks as Bocchoris,[1] was briefly a king of the Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt. Based at Sais in the western Delta, he ruled Lower Egypt from c. 725 to 720 BC. Though the Ptolemaic period Egyptian historian Manetho[2] considers him the sole member of the Twenty-fourth dynasty, modern scholars include his father ...

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