<HTML>Howdy Will:
This is not the king list Egyptologists use, to be sure, but it is the one Herodotus gives in the Histories. 13 kings and one council of 12 kings ruled Egypt from the time of Cheops (I'm using Herodotus' terms) to the time of the Persian invasion in 525 B.C.. These were:
Cheops, Chepheren, Mycerinus, Asychis, Anysis, Sabacos, !2 Kings, Psammitichus, Neco, Psammis, Apries, Amasis and Psammenitus, whom Cambyses,son of Cyrus, defeated.
Herodotus doesn't give the length of every reign. But taking an average of 30 years per reign, (probably high, the average reign in Europe over the last thousand years has been about 22 years) the total number of years between Persian invasion and the construction of the Great Pyramid would come to 420 years. Added to 525 B.C. the date of Cheops' reign would have been about 945 B.C.. Possibly the king list given by Herodotus has been the source for one of the dates given by Diodorus for the construction of the Giza Pyramids, namely, 1000 B.C..
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