General Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels instead, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated.

An inscription confirms the struggle between the native Egyptian and the foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the third year of Amasis ( c. 567 B. C. E .).

Amasis then married Chedebnitjerbone II, one of the daughters of his predecessor Apries, in order to legitimise his kingship.

Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.

Nebuchadnezzar successfully fought the Pharaohs Psammetichus II and Apries throughout his reign, and during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis in 568 BC it is rumoured that he may have briefly invaded Egypt itself.

Cambyses wants to marry a daughter of Amasis, who sends him a daughter of Apries instead of his own daughter, and by her Cambyses is induced to begin the war.

* 567 BC — Former pharaoh Apries invades Egypt with Babylonian help but is defeated by Saite pharaoh Amasis II ( also known as Ahmose II ).

* 570 BC — Amasis II succeeds Apries as king of Egypt.

At this time of crisis, the Egyptians turned in support towards a victorious general, Amasis II who had led Egyptian forces in a highly successful invasion of Nubia in 592 BC under pharaoh Psamtik II, Apries ' father.

Amasis quickly declared himself pharaoh in 570 BC and Apries fled Egypt and sought refuge in another foreign country.

When Apries marched back to Egypt in 567 BC with the aid of a Babylonian army to reclaim the throne of Egypt, he was likely killed in battle with Amasis ' forces.

" Amasis, the former general who had declared himself pharaoh also married Apries ' daughter Chedebnitjerbone II to legitimise his accession to power.

In 570 BC the Pharaoh Apries ( Wahibre, reigned 589-570 BC ) led the descendants of this mercenary army made up of 30, 000 Carians and Ionians against a former general turned rebel by the name of Amasis.

Beghé, like Philae, was a holy island ; its and rocks are inscribed with the names and titles of Amenhotep III, Rameses the Great, Psammetichus, Apries, and Amasis, together with memorials of the later Macedonian and Roman rulers of Egypt.

Herodotus relates that under his prudent administration, Egypt reached a new level of wealth ; Amasis adorned the temples of Lower Egypt especially with splendid monolithic shrines and other monuments ( his activity here is proved by existing remains ).

The remains of a chapel of Osiris, erected by Amasis II of the twenty-sixth, also were found near the northern temple.

Herodotus describes how Amasis II would eventually cause a confrontation with the Persian armies.

In an attempt to exact revenge for his forced exile, the physician would grow very close with Cambyses and would suggest that Cambyses should ask Amasis for a daughter in marriage in order to solidify his bonds with the Egyptians.

Amasis would send one of his eunuchs to capture Phanes, but the eunuch is bested by the wise council man and Phanes flees to Persia, meeting up with Cambyses providing advice in his invasion of Egypt.

Although Amasis thus appears first as champion of the disparaged native, he had the good sense to cultivate the friendship of the Greek world, and brought Egypt into closer touch with it than ever before.

However, Amasis was later faced with a more formidable enemy with the rise of Persia under Cyrus who ascended to the throne in 559 B. C. E.

which left Amasis with no major Near Eastern allies to counter Persia's increasing military might.

Amasis reacted by cultivating closer ties with the Greek states to counter the future Persian invasion into Egypt but was fortunate to have died in 526 B. C. E.

King Amasis had hoped that Egypt would be able to withstand the threatened Persian attack by an alliance with the Greeks.

* c. 540 BC — Amasis Painter makes Dionysos with maenads, black-figure decoration on an amphora.

Voltaire interprets the legacy of Nebuchadnezzar and his relationship with Amasis in a short story entitled The White Bull.

Croesus, now feeling secure, formed an alliance with Sparta in addition to those he had with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia, and launched his campaign against the Persian Empire in 547 BC.

He then allied with Amasis II, pharaoh of Egypt, as well as the tyrant of Naxos Lygdamis.

The first important painter of this time was the Amasis Painter ( 560 – 525 BC ), named after the famous potter Amasis, with whom he primarily worked.

Amasis indeed converted Naucratis into a major treaty-port and commercial link with the west.

This division of labours appears to have developed along with the introduction of red-figure painting, since many potter-painters are known from the black-figure period ( including Exekias, Nearchos and perhaps the Amasis Painter ).

According to Herodotus, Amasis, was asked by Cambyses II or Cyrus the Great for an Egyptian ophthalmologist on good terms.

Amasis seems to have complied by forcing an Egyptian physician into mandatory labor causing him to leave his family behind in Egypt and move to Persia in forced exile.

" Nitetis naturally, betrayed Amasis and upon being greeted by the Persian king explained Amasis's trickery and her true origins.

Amasis would die before Cambyses reached him, but his heir and son Psamtik III would be defeated by the Persians.

), Amasis was able to defeat an invasion of Egypt by the Babylonians under Nebuchadrezzar II ; henceforth, the Babylonians experienced sufficient difficulties controlling their empire that they were forced to abandon future attacks against Amasis.

The war took place in 525 BCE, when Amasis II had just been succeeded by his son Psamtik III.

Cyprus gained independence for some time around 669 but was conquered by Egypt under Amasis ( 570-526 / 525 ).

She was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Amasis, and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.

Dionysus and two Maenads, as depicted by the Amasis Painter circa 550-530BCE.

A temple attested by its foundation deposits was built by Amasis.

On Samos he built an aqueduct, a large temple of Hera ( the Heraion, to which Amasis dedicated many gifts ), and a palace later rebuilt by the Roman emperor Caligula.

The work of Lydos and the Amasis Painter was, by contrast, not imitated as frequently.