id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9034 Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt - Wikipedia .html text/html 5566 1070 72 Periods and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt The Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXVII, alternatively 27th Dynasty or Dynasty 27), also known as the First Egyptian Satrapy (Old Persian: Mudrāya[8]), was effectively a province (satrapy) of the Achaemenid Persian Empire between 525 BC and 404 BC. Cambyses was crowned Pharaoh of Egypt in the summer of that year at the latest, beginning the first period of Persian rule over Egypt (known as the 27th Dynasty). He reportedly codified the laws of Egypt, and notably completed the excavation of a canal system at Suez, allowing passage from the Bitter Lakes to the Red Sea, much preferable to the arduous desert land route. Artaxerxes III (358 BC) reconquered the Nile valley for a brief second period (343 BC), which is called the 31st Dynasty of Egypt. Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt (343 BC–332 BC) — also known as the 2nd Egyptian Satrapy. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9034.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9034.txt