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6 unusual facts about Apries


Late Period of ancient Egypt

Jeremiah mentions Pharaoh Hophra (otherwise known as Apries) in Jeremiah 44: v. 30 whose reign came to a violent end in 570 BCE.

Phanes of Halicarnassus

Herodotus recounts of one possible motive for Cambyses II to want to take on Egypt: According to Herodotus, Amasis II came to power by bloody means by defeating, and murdering his predecessor pharaoh Apries.

Santa Maria sopra Minerva

It is the shortest of the eleven Egyptian obelisks in Rome and is said to have been one of two obelisks moved from Sais, where they were built during the 589 BC-570 BC reign of the pharaoh Apries, from the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt.

Takhuit

Takhuit was the wife of Psamtik II and the mother of Pharaoh Apries and the God's Wife of Amun Ankhnesneferibre.

Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt family tree

The rule of the family of Necho I ends with the death of Apries, who was replaced by Amasis II, originally a general, and not of the royal house at all.

Zedekiah

Despite the strong remonstrances of Jeremiah, Baruch ben Neriah and his other family and advisors, as well as the example of Jehoiakim, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh Hophra of Egypt.


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