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Name: Persian Conquest of Upper Egypt

Type: Event

Start: 399 BC

End: 399 BC

Parent: Achaemenid-Egyptian War

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The Persians conquered Upper Egypt from Pharaoh Amyrtaeus who had been able to make Egypt a Kingdom independent from Persia a couple of years before.

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  • January 399 BC: The Elephantine papyri also demonstrate that between 404 and 400 BC (or even 398) Upper Egypt remained under Persian control, while the forces of Amyrtaeus dominated the Delta.

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