Regardless, Necho is reported as having never completed his project.

Herodotus mentions that the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II ( 610 – 595 BC ) built triremes on the Nile, for service in the Mediterranean, and in the Red Sea, but this reference is disputed by modern historians, and attributed to a confusion, since " triērēs " was by the 5th century used in the generic sense of " warship ", regardless its type.

* 609 BC: King Josiah of Judah dies in the Battle of Megiddo against Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt, who is on his way north to aid the rump Assyrian state of Ashur-uballit II.

* 609 BC: Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by Necho, who installs Jehoahaz's brother Jehoiakim in his place.

* 609 BC — King Josiah of Judah dies in the Battle of Megiddo against Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt, who is on his way north to aid the Assyrian state of Ashur-uballit II.

Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by Necho, who installs Jehoahaz's brother Jehoiakim in his place.

Necho II is most likely the pharaoh mentioned in several books of the Bible ( see Hebrew Bible / Old Testament ).

* The canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, initially started but not completed by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II and repaired by the Persian king Darius I, is again repaired and made operational by Ptolemy II.

* 609 BC: Jerusalem becomes part of the Empire of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt after Josiah of Judah is killed by the army of Pharaoh Necho II at the Battle of Megiddo ( 609 BC ).

* 605 BC: Jerusalem switches its tributary allegiance back to the Neo-Babylonians after Necho II is defeated by Nebuchadnezzar II at the Battle of Carchemish.

However, this stela is now believed to refer instead to a second later Saite king called Tefnakht II from the late Nubian era because it is almost similar in style and format to a newly revealed donation stela — from a private collection — which is dated to Year 2 of Necho I's reign.

This Battle of Megiddo is recorded as having taken place in 609 BC with Necho II of Egypt leading his army to Carchemish to fight with his allies the Assyrians against the Babylonians at Carchemish in northern Syria.

Finally there is the suggestion that Herodotus records this battle and Egyptian campaign in his writings about the pharaoh Necho, that are included in his famous Histories:

Manetho's Necho is King Necho I ( 672 BC-664 BC ) Manetho gives his reign as 8 years.

Egypt was reunified by his son Psamtik I. Necho I is primarily known from Assyrian documents but is now also attested in one contemporary Egyptian document from his reign.

Necho I's Year 2 is now attested on a privately held donation stela that was first published by Olivier Perdu .< ref > Olivier Perdu, < cite > De Stéphinatès à Néchao ou les débuts de la XXVIe dynastie </ cite >( From Tefnakht II to Necho and the start of the 26th Dynasty ), CRAIBL 2002, pp. 1215-1244 </ ref > The stela records a large land donation to the Osirian triad of PerHebyt ( modern Behbeit el-Hagar near Sebennytos ) by the " priest of Isis, Mistress of Hebyt, Great Chief ... son of Iuput, Akanosh.

Necho was perhaps the brother of Nekauba -- whose status as a king of Sais is currently unproven.

Necho is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, and therefore cannot be seen directly from the Earth.

In the summer of 605 BC, the Battle of Carchemish was fought there by the Babylonian army of Nebuchadrezzar II and that of Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt and the remnants of the Assyrian army.

According to the Histories of the Greek historian Herodotus, about 600 BC, Necho II undertook to dig a west-east canal through the Wadi Tumilat between Bubastis and Heroopolis, and perhaps continued it to the Heroopolite Gulf and the Red Sea.

Immediately to the south of Bubastis were the allotments of land with which Psammetichus rewarded the services of his Ionian and Carian mercenaries ; and on the northern side of the city commenced the canal which Pharaoh Necho II began ( but never finished ) to go between the Nile and the Red Sea.

Excavations carried out over five seasons between 1978 and 1985 have shown that Tell el-Maskhuta dates only to the end of the 7th century, and may have been built by Pharaoh Necho II, possibly as part of his uncompleted canal building project from the Nile to the Gulf of Suez.

It is the location of the old Necho Allen hotel, the Yuengling brewery ( the oldest American brewery still in operation ), and the former home of novelist John O ' Hara.

* 664 BC: Psammetichus I succeeds Necho I as king of Lower Egypt.

* 610 BC: Necho II succeeds Psammetichus I as king of Egypt.

* 664 BC — Death of Necho I, king of Egypt

* 595 BC — Psamtik II succeeds Necho II as king of Egypt.

* 610 BC — Necho II succeeds Psamtik I ( Psammetichus ) as king of Egypt.

* 664 BC: Psamtik I succeeds Necho I as king of Lower Egypt.

* 664 BC: Death of Necho I, king of Egypt

Necho II ( sometimes Nekau ) was a king of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt ( 610 BC – 595 BC ).

The Book of Chronicles gives a lengthier account and 2 Chronicles 35: 20 states that when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against the Babylonians at Carchemish on the Euphrates River and that King Josiah was fatally wounded by an Egyptian archer.

Taharqa fled to the south, and Esarhaddon reorganized the political structure in the north, establishing Necho I as king at Sais.

On Josiah's death, Jehoiakim's younger brother Jehoahaz ( or Shallum ) was proclaimed king, but after three months pharaoh Necho II deposed him and replaced him with the eldest son, Eliakim, who adopted the name Jehoiakim and became king at the age of twenty-five.

Jehoiakim was installed as king of Judah by pharaoh Necho II in 608 BC, who deposed his younger brother Jehoahaz after a reign of only three months and took him to Egypt, where he died.

Psamtik was the son of Necho I who died in 664 BC when the Kushite king Tantamani tried unsuccessfully to seize control of lower Egypt from the Assyrian Empire.

() Necho deposed Jehoahaz, who had been king for only three months, and replaced him with his older brother, Jehoiakim.

Necho had left Egypt in 609 BC for two reasons: one was to relieve the Babylonian siege of Harran, and the other was to help the king of Assyria, who was defeated by the Babylonians at Carchemish.

This required passing through territory controlled by the Kingdom of Judah and Necho requested permission from its king, Josiah.

Necho also changed the name of this new king into Jehoiakim.

Necho was killed during a conflict with the Nubian king Tanutamun.

Once the Assyrians had appointed Necho I as king and left Egypt, Tantamani marched down the Nile from Nubia and reoccupied all of Egypt including Memphis.

Necho I was the first king of the Saite Twenty-sixth Dynasty ( 664 BC-525 BC ) of Egypt.