Persian kings and their strategy towards the Egyptians. Interpretation of recent archaeological finds from the Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir

Abstract

Significant part of our information about the conquer of Egypt by Persian army comes from Greek authors and we know, that the activities of Persian kings had negative comments in their accounts. But the situation was not like this in reality.

This is well illustrated by the results of Czech archaeological excavation on the territory of a rather small Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir.

Keywords

• Persian Empire
• Egypt
• Abusir
• Saite-Persian cemetery