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

Amasis II () or Ahmose II was a pharaoh ( 570 B. C. E.

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

: See Amasis II for the 26th Dynasty pharaoh whose name sometimes appears as Ahmose II.

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.

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

* Amasis II ( or Ahmose II ), ( reigned c. 570 BC-c. 526 BC ), pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt

Plato also notes the city as the birthplace of the pharaoh Amasis II.

Psamtik III was the son of the pharaoh Amasis II and one of his wives, Queen Tentkheta.

He succeeded his father as pharaoh in 526 BC, when Amasis died after a long and prosperous reign of some 44 years.

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

* Amasis II, Pharaoh of Egypt in 570 – 526 BC

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.

In 570 BCE, Cyprus was conquered by Egypt under Amasis II.

Amasis II died in 526 BC.

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.

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

* 526 BC — Psammetichus III succeeds Amasis II as king of Egypt.

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.

* Amasis I, Pharaoh of Egypt in 1550 – 1525 BC

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.

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.

Although fighting valiantly they suffered defeat and Amasis II became Pharaoh ( reigned 570-526 BC ).

c. 470 BC Amasis compels Cyprus to pay tribute to Egypt after becoming the first man to take it by force.

Contract for metayage, papyrus, 35th year of Amasis II ( 533 BC, Demotic ( Egyptian ) | 26th Dynasty )

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.

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.

Amasis, however, reportedly treated Apries ' mortal remains with respect and observed the proper funerary rituals by having Apries ' body carried to Sais and buried there with " full military honours.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

Herodotus who visited Egypt less than a century after Amasis II's death writes that:

), 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.

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.

Herodotus also relates the desecration of Ahmose II / Amasis ' mummy when the Persian king Cambyses conquered Egypt and thus ended the 26th Saite dynasty:

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

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

Amasis, king of Egypt, collected army, and marched and spread abroad.

There, according to Herodotus he visited the Pharaoh of Egypt Amasis II.

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.

* Amasis ( Persian general ), Achaemenid military commander in Egypt in ca.