Necho II (610-595 BC)

Bronze statue
of Necho II

Necho II (610-595 BC) was the son and successor of Psammetichus I, Necho II is not well presented by the monuments; in Egypt his significant chronicler is the Greek writer Herodotus. It is recorded that he was responsible for digging a canal to re-got a waterway between the Nile and the Red Sea, which had the effect of maximizing trade and commerce. He likewise provided Egypt with a fleet of triremes and placed his Phoenician sailors some Africa on a voyage that gone for three years, going from the Red Sea about the Cape and then establishing by Gibraltar.

Small part of vessel
whowing the name of
Necho II

His foreign policy took him into the centre of world events. The Assyrian empire had fallen to the Medes and the Babylonians and Necho II now got the main adversary of the Babylonian kings. Like many of his precursors, Necho II interferred in the politics of Syria/Palestine. He advertised against Josiah, king of Judah, who tried to forbid him from passing the walls of Megiddo, and when Josiah was killed, Necho II set up a compliant swayer in Judah. His ambition for global influence was passing, for within a few years, Nebuchadrezzar (son of the Babylonian king, Nabopolassar) overcome him in a extended battle at Carchemish in 605 BC. In 601 BC, Nebuchadrezzar (who was now king of Babylon) processed against Egypt, but suffered extended losses and was affected to return home. Despite  his  attempted  forays  into  established  politics,  Necho  II  was  an internationalist, whose interests in both foreign and home spheres went beyond Egypt itself.

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