Amyrtaeus

Amyrtaeus was an Egyptian ruler who founded the Twenty-eighth Dynasty and ruled from 404 to 399 BCE after ending Persian rule in Egypt.

Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt: The Egyptian dynasty founded by Amyrtaeus, consisting solely of his reign from 404 to 399 BCE. Amyrtaeus’s rule alone constitutes this brief dynasty.
Nefaarud I: The founder of Egypt’s Twenty-ninth Dynasty, who succeeded Amyrtaeus in 399 BCE. His accession ended Amyrtaeus’s dynasty and began a new royal line.
Ancient Egypt: The civilization of the Nile Valley from prehistory through the Roman conquest. Amyrtaeus ruled within its late dynastic period.
Manetho: An Egyptian priest and historian who composed a history of Egypt in Greek during the third century BCE. His dynastic account underlies much later reconstruction of Amyrtaeus’s place in Egyptian history.
Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt: The Persian dynasty that ruled Egypt before Amyrtaeus’s successful revolt. Its fall marks the end of Persian rule Amyrtaeus achieved.
Egyptian Twenty-ninth Dynasty: The Egyptian dynasty that ruled after Amyrtaeus from 399 to 380 BCE. It continued native rule after the brief Twenty-eighth Dynasty.
Achaemenid Empire: The ancient Persian empire founded by Cyrus the Great and ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty. It had controlled Egypt before Amyrtaeus’s revolt.
Egyptian hieroglyphs: The formal writing system used in ancient Egypt, combining phonetic and logographic signs. The scarcity of securely identified inscriptions limits direct evidence for Amyrtaeus.
First Persian Period of Egypt: The period of Persian imperial rule in Egypt from 525 to 404 BCE. Amyrtaeus’s revolt ended this period of foreign rule.
Egyptian Twenty-sixth Dynasty: A native Egyptian dynasty that ruled before the Persian conquest of 525 BCE. Its earlier restoration of Egyptian power contrasts with Amyrtaeus’s post-Persian revolt.

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