Ruler · 611 – 526 BCE

Amasis II

Lived 611 – 526 BCE; statesperson. Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, 570 BCE – 526 BCE; also in the line of Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt.

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Lived: 611 BCE – 526 BCE; 85 years
In office: 44 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Pharaoh

Ancient Egypt · the 73rd of 87 dated reigns · 4001 BCE – 30 BCE

69 before

Necho II610 BCE – 595 BCE

Psamtik II595 BCE – 589 BCE

Apries589 BCE – 570 BCE

Amasis II570 BCE – 526 BCE

Psamtik III526 BCE – 525 BCE

Cambyses II525 BCE – 522 BCE

Bardiya522 BCE

11 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 570 BCE – 526 BCE · 44 years · came to it aged 41

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 526 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt (5th of 6).

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