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Description
The Third Intermediate Period concluded with the restoration of centralised authority and the reunification of Egypt. In less than a decade Psamtek I, the first ruler of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty achieved the reunification of the Two Lands. The Saite Period that followed was marked by the shrewdness of the Saite rulers and their considerable achievements in the political, economic, administrative and cultural spheres. The Saite Dynasty was a time of no mean achievement, with Egypt preserving its independence as a sovereign state against powerful foreign adversaries. Significantly, the Saite Period was the last noteworthy and relatively enduring period of native Egyptian rule, and other than the short-lived 30th Dynasty, was the last major resurgence of indigenous rulers on the throne of Egypt for some two and a half millennia.