First published in 1951, the present volume is a history of Egypt in its declining years. It details the Pharaonic struggle with the priesthoods over power, the intervention of the Ethiopians and the subsequent invasions by the Assyrians, Chaldeans and the Persians culminating in the arrival of Alexander the Great."e;IN writing this book, the author desired, as in his previous work Ptolemies of Egypt, to interest the general reader in the ruling personalities in Egypt during a period when the fate of that country was as intertwined with that of its neighbour states as it is in modern days."e;-P. G. Elgood