id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2109 Nepherites I - Wikipedia .html text/html 2035 499 80 Nefaarud I or Nayfaurud I, better known with his hellenised name Nepherites I, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the founder of the 29th Dynasty in 399 BC. It is believed that Nepherites was a general from the deltaic city of Mendes who, in the autumn of 399 BC, rose against pharaoh Amyrtaeus, defeated him in open battle,[2] and then executed him at Memphis.[3] Nepherites then crowned himself pharaoh at Memphis and possibly also at Sais, before shifting the capital from Sais to his hometown Mendes.[4] The fact that Nepherites I chose the same Horus name of Psamtik I and the Golden Horus name of Amasis II – both relevant rulers of the earlier 26th Dynasty is thought to demonstrate that he wanted to associate his rule with an earlier 'golden age' of Egyptian history.[5] Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2109.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2109.txt