The Third Intermediate Period (c.1070-664 BC) is often – quite unjustifiably - given short shrift by many histories of ancient Egypt. Although the glories of the New Kingdom were now in the past, the era saw the production of the treasures of the intact tomb of king Psusennes I, while the ruling class and ultimately the very structure of the state was transformed by the addition of a Libyan strand. The multi-cultural nature of its cultural dynamics was further underlined by the invasion from the Sudan that heralded the end of the period - but also introduced a reverence for the Egyptian distant past that would be such a conceptual feature of the following Saite Period.

Aidan Dodson studied Egyptology at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge University and is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Bristol, where he teaches Egyptian archaeology. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003 and is the author of eleven books and over two hundred articles and reviews.

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