From the Third Intermediate Period until the Persian Conquest
From the 21st to the 26th Dynasty

• Continual weakening of the central power
• Bronze statue of a priest wearing a loin-cloth with a picture of Osiris.

• Royal mummies near Thebes are being hidden in order to protect them from tomb robbers. (Rediscovery in 1881)
• Curly wigs worn by the nobility

• Poppy is mentioned

• Sheshonq I relies on the priests of Thebes.

• Sheshonq I conquers Jerusalem.

• Priest as a block statue with relief showing gods.
• The animal cult gains importance

• Coexists with the 22nd Dynasty

• Canopic jars, containing the inner organs, with lids in the form of humans or animals.

• Ethiopians conquer the whole of Egypt.
• Renaissance of traditional art forms.
• A net of auxiliary lines on sculptures points to extensive copying of models. Chisels are being used side by side with stone hammers.

• The demotic script is developed from the hieratic.

• The Assyrian Asarhaddon conquers the whole of Egypt.
• Egyptians resettled in Assyria influence Assyrian life and culture.

• Egypt is united and independent from Assyria.
• Relief of head made of transparent green on top of opaque red glass with an intermediate light blue layer.

• Beginning of the re-excavation of the canal connecting the Nile with the Red Sea.
• Circumnavigation of Africa

• Egypt enjoys its last brilliant period under a native ruler.
• Trade with Greece flourishes.
• Close friendship with Polycrates of Samos.
• Promotion of the Greek city Naukratis in Egypt.

• Cambyses, son of the Persian king Cyrus, conquers Egypt.

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