Psametik III., son of Aahmes, inherited a quarrel of his father with
Cambyses, king of Persia, who invaded and conquered Egypt in 525 B. C.
For nearly two centuries afterwards the history of Egypt is marked,
disastrously, by constant struggles between the people and their Persian
conquerors, and, in a more favorable and interesting way, by the growing
intercourse between the land of the Nile and the Greeks. Greek
historians and philosophers--Herodotus and Anaxagoras and Plato--visited
the country, and took back stores of information on its wonders, its
culture, and its faith.