State · 664 – 525 BCE

Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt

A state of 664 – 525 BCE — 139 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Neo-Assyrian Empire and Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. It was replaced by Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt and followed by Achaemenid Empire. The atlas records 1 thing within it — wars and battles 1. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 139 years; 664 BCE – 525 BCE
Rulers: 6; the pharaoh
Most ground: 465,000 km²; in 550 BCE
Within it: 1; recorded row

Map: Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt in 550 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt in 550 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 465,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Neo-Assyrian Empire · follows · 911 – 609 BCE
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt · follows · 715 – 656 BCE

After it

Achaemenid Empire · followed by · 550 – 330 BCE
Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt · replaced by · 525 – 404 BCE

Rulers

The line of pharaoh.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Psamtik I	664 BCE – 610 BCE	54 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Necho II	610 BCE – 595 BCE	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Psamtik II	595 BCE – 589 BCE	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Apries	589 BCE – 570 BCE	19 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Amasis II	570 BCE – 526 BCE	44 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Psamtik III	526 BCE – 525 BCE	1 year	executedWikidata's manner of death	child

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 664 BCE – 525 BCE. Median reign 17 years. 0 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

453,600 km² in 614 BCE, 465,000 km² in 525 BCE; at its largest 465,000 km² in 544 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

600 BCE – 501 BCE1 row · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Pelusium · battle · 525 BCE

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood139 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held465,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 73% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median19 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 139

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 678 BCE – 511 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 550 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q662410 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.