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After Hrihor and Smendes had split-up Egypt, it was now governed from two separate capitals, Thebes in the south and Tanis in the north; this begins the third intermediate period. The Third Intermediate Period covers the centuries between the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) and the Late Period. (A note here: it is not known if the “Jews” of Spain, herein referenced, refers to Khazars or actual Hebrews. For a time, relations between the two halves of the country were amicable and cooperative. Gold and silver royal burial equipment from Tanis shows the highest quality of craftsmanship. Many towns of Judah were ravaged, though Jerusalem was not taken. The end of the Nubian 25th dynasty was brought on by two factors: first - the Egyptians had apparently tired of foreign rule, even if it was Nubian. miscarried, in 671 B.C. The smoldering hostility of the two great powers flared up afresh under Assyrian king Sennacherib (705-681 B.C. During the course of the Third Intermediate Period, the capital of Egypt moved from Tanis to Nubia, to Thebes, to Sais and back to Nubia and Thebes. 1069 BCE - 943 BCE: 21st Dynasty of Egypt. Second - the full-scale invasion of Egypt by the Assyrians. The Late Period of ancient Egypt refers to the last flowering of native Egyptian rulers after the Third Intermediate Period in the 26th Saite Dynasty founded by Psamtik I, but includes the time of Achaemenid Persian rule over Egypt after the conquest by Cambyses II in 525 BC as well. Around 945 BC another military man of ‘Libyan’ origin, from Bubastis, established direct control over the entire country asking Sheshonq I, marking the beginning of the 22nd Dynasty.Egypt lost its control over Israel and Lebanon (this is the story of Moses) and was again ruled by different kings in the north and the south.

The Third Intermediate Period covers the centuries between the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) and the Late Period. Trouble had arisen farther south however. But he did maintain oversight from his capital in Nubia/Kush.
The Third Intermediate Period refers to the time in Ancient Egypt from the death of Pharaoh Ramesses XI in 1070 BC to the foundation of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty by Psamtik I in 664 BC, following the expulsion of the Nubian rulers of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.

Esarhaddon's first attempt in 674–673 B.C. In 679 B.C. (After mentioning the booty which he carried off to Assyria he continues): All Nubians I deported from Egypt, leaving not even one to do homage to me.

During the course of the Third Intermediate Period, the capital of Egypt moved from Tanis to Nubia, to Thebes, to Sais and back to Nubia and Thebes. Picture of a statue of a genie of the Nile flood; Bronze from Late Period Egypt; Now at the Louvre.
Nonroyal coffins and papyri bear elaborate scenes and texts that ensured the rebirth of the deceased.Around 715 BC, a black Sudanese (or Kushite) king from south of Egypt, named Piankhy, invaded and conquered most of Egypt and founded Dynasty 25 of the Pharaohs.Preoccupied with internal rivalries during the Third Intermediate Period, Egypt gradually lost its traditional control of Nubia, located to its south. As the Khazars are also ethnically Turkish, they are likely the referenced group).Accordingly, Piye decided to step in and fix Egypt's problems. Ancient Egypt History > Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. Here is a shortened excerpt from the best preserved of his inscriptions: From the town of Ishhupri as far as Memphis, a distance of fifteen days, I fought daily, very bloody battles against Tarky, king of Egypt and Nubia, the one accursed by all the great gods. ), became Assyria's king. During this crossover period from the Third Intermediate, the Assyrians fought the Nubians in Egypt. Upon the death of Sennacherib, his son "Esarhaddon" (680-669 B.C. Nubia got back its independence all together, and had its own kings, and so did the Egyptian territories in Israel and Syria (this is the time of King David and King Solomon in the Bible).Relatively little building took place during the Third Intermediate Period, but the creation of stylistically and technologically innovative bronze and precious temple statuary of gods, kings, and great temple officials flourished. At the end of the New Kingdom, Egypt was divided. In 729 B.C., the Egyptian rulers Namlot and Tefnakht joined forces to extend their control further into Upper Egypt. 1077 BCE - 1047 BCE: Founding of the city of Tanis. About 760 B.C., an independent native dynasty began to rule Nubia, or Kush, from Napata in what is now the Sudan and extended its influence into southern Egypt. Now the time was ripe to attack Egypt, which was suffering under the rule of the Nubians and was by no means a united country. Kushite Period - Dynasty 25 (c.712-664 B.C.) He was appointed by his cousin, Osorkon II, and while Osorkon ruled in the north, Horsiese took control of the south of Egypt. I destroyed it, tore down its walls, and burnt it down. ), whose third campaign in Canaan, started with the subjugation of the Phoenician coast-towns. Assyrian consultants were immediately assigned to assist the princes of the provinces, their main duty being the collection of tribute.The Egyptian records are silent, but stele and tablets inscribed in cuneiform, give circumstantial accounts of the campaign in which Esarhaddon, after subjugating Canaan, drove Nubian king "Taharka" reeling back to the south. By the time of Nubian king Pi'ankhy, Lower Egypt and part of Middle Egypt had already disintegrated into a number of petty princedoms, which were always ready to side with whichever of the two great powers (Nubia and Assyria), that would be the more likely to leave them with their independence.

The north was inherited by the Tanite 21st dynasty (1075–c. however, his forces took Memphis, the Egyptian capital. Esarhaddon stationed a garrison at the Egyptian border, because Egypt, under the Nubian king Taharqa, was planning to intervene in Arum.