Libyan Dynasties Rule Egypt

Timeline

1. c. -945Bubastis · Nile DeltaThe Libyan-descended military leader Shoshenq I made himself pharaoh and founded the Twenty-second Dynasty with its capital at Bubastis in the eastern Delta, marking the formal seizure of Egyptian royal power by Libyan elites.
2. c. -850–-800Tanis · Nile DeltaIn the late Twenty-second Dynasty royal power weakened; Libyan local governors and warlords each went their own way, and rival regimes arose at Tanis, Hermopolis and elsewhere, plunging Egypt back into division.
3. c. -818–-715Hermopolis · Middle EgyptDynasty 23 arose at Tanis and Dynasty 24 at Sais; the coexistence of multiple dynasties further fragmented Libyan rule, opening the way for the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty's advance from the south.