From the twenty-sixth dynasty down to late Roman times the infant Horus, or the young boy, was the most prominent subject on the temples, and the commonest figure in the homes of the people.
This was emphasised still more in the twenty-sixth dynasty by the great monolith boxes of granite which contained not only precious statuettes, but even life-sized statues of granite.
She was almost lost to sight during some thousands of years, but she became the state goddess of the twenty-sixth dynasty, when the Libyans set up their capital in her city of Sais.
Isis as the nursing mother is seldom shown until the twenty-sixth dynasty; then the type continually became more popular, until it outgrew all other religions of the country.
The twenty-sixth dynasty was an age of antiquarian revival; not content with restoring Egypt to peace and prosperity, its kings aimed also at restoring the Egypt of the past.
The blood of the founder of the twenty-sixth dynasty was, however, mixed.
When Egypt was at last opened to Greek trade and enterprise in the time of the twenty-sixth dynasty it was still the Kanopic arm of the Nile towards which their vessels had to steer.
This colony was established there at some time during the twenty-sixth dynasty, and was thus one of the earliest of those Jewish settlements in foreign countries which formed the dispersion.
Cambyses, the son of Cyrus, overthrew the twenty-sixth dynasty, and made Egypt a Persian province.
Hophra, of the twenty-sixth dynasty, was, as noted in Sec.
Wall painting of funerary offerings, from mastaba of Nenka, Sakkarah, Sixth Dynasty.
The Saite Recension was definitely arranged at some date prior to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, and is written upon coffins and papyri, and also in hieratic and demotic script.
Not a trace is extant of those tombs in which the princes of the twenty-sixth dynasty were, according to Herodotus, placed one after another.
Are we to believe that the splendid edifices reared in the cities of the Delta, and especially at Sais, by the twenty-sixth dynasty, have perished to the last stone?
They copied, as well as they could, the monuments of the twenty-sixth dynasty.
Nit rose to eminence with the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
This proved to be the remains of the earliest Greek settlement in Egypt, and contains no remains from a later period than the twenty-sixth dynasty.
Here there was also found a standing statue of the Governor of Ethiopia, a priest and priestess of the twenty-sixth dynasty, and many other monuments of the greatest historical interest.
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