Roger Forshaw is Honorary Lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester

'This handsome hardcover volume is more than sufficiently furnished with black-andwhite illustrations and numerous maps. Additional extensive references of over thirty pages (pp. 189–220) and a thoroughly elaboratedindex (pp. 221–30) conclude a well-conceived and well-executed book. Altogether, this is a most welcome and important contribution to the study of the Saite era'.Archiv orientální

• Foreword by Campbell PricePrefaceChronologies1 Political turmoil and 'Libyan' settlers: setting the scene2 Nubian and Assyrian invaders3 Psamtek 'the Great': reunification of Egypt 4 Egypt, a new beginning: foreign relations and internal reforms 5 The heirs of Psamtek I: Nekau II and Psamtek II6 Haaibra versus Ahmose II: civil war to prosperity7 Fall of the house of Sais: the last Saite ruler, Psamtek III8 The Saite era within the history of Pharaonic civilisationReferencesIndex

Roger Forshaw is Honorary Lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester

'This handsome hardcover volume is more than sufficiently furnished with black-andwhite illustrations and numerous maps. Additional extensive references of over thirty pages (pp. 189–220) and a thoroughly elaboratedindex (pp. 221–30) conclude a well-conceived and well-executed book. Altogether, this is a most welcome and important contribution to the study of the Saite era'.Archiv orientální

• Foreword by Campbell PricePrefaceChronologies1 Political turmoil and 'Libyan' settlers: setting the scene2 Nubian and Assyrian invaders3 Psamtek 'the Great': reunification of Egypt 4 Egypt, a new beginning: foreign relations and internal reforms 5 The heirs of Psamtek I: Nekau II and Psamtek II6 Haaibra versus Ahmose II: civil war to prosperity7 Fall of the house of Sais: the last Saite ruler, Psamtek III8 The Saite era within the history of Pharaonic civilisationReferencesIndex

Roger Forshaw is Honorary Lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester

'This handsome hardcover volume is more than sufficiently furnished with black-andwhite illustrations and numerous maps. Additional extensive references of over thirty pages (pp. 189–220) and a thoroughly elaboratedindex (pp. 221–30) conclude a well-conceived and well-executed book. Altogether, this is a most welcome and important contribution to the study of the Saite era'.Archiv orientální

• Foreword by Campbell PricePrefaceChronologies1 Political turmoil and 'Libyan' settlers: setting the scene2 Nubian and Assyrian invaders3 Psamtek 'the Great': reunification of Egypt 4 Egypt, a new beginning: foreign relations and internal reforms 5 The heirs of Psamtek I: Nekau II and Psamtek II6 Haaibra versus Ahmose II: civil war to prosperity7 Fall of the house of Sais: the last Saite ruler, Psamtek III8 The Saite era within the history of Pharaonic civilisationReferencesIndex