The Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt was the first period of Persian rule over Egypt, after Cambyses II of the Achaemenid Empire defeated the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik III at the Battle of Pelusium. Egypt became a satrapy, a province of the Persian Empire, governed by a satrap, and the Persian kings were counted as pharaohs. Darius I is remembered for completing a canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea and for codifying Egyptian law, and he supported some Egyptian temples. Persian rule was resented, however, and rebellions broke out repeatedly, especially after the Persian defeat by Greece. In the end, a prince from the Delta, Amyrtaeus, led a revolt and drove the Persians out, founding the Twenty-eighth Dynasty.
Before and after
- c. 535 BCEGreek tragedy is born at the Athenian festival of Dionysus
- 530 BCEConstruction of Tomb of Cyrus the Great
- 530 BCEDeath of Cyrus the Great
- 525 BCEBirth of Aeschylus
- from 525 BCE to 404 BCETwenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt
- c. 520 BCECarving of the Behistun inscription
- from c. 510 BCE to 323 BCEClassical Greece
- c. 510 BCEThe Roman Republic is founded
- from 509 BCE to 27 BCERoman Republic
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