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“We are standing before a goldmine of information,” said Dr Ramadan Badry Hussein, director of the Saqqara Saite Tombs Project which oversees the excavation.

According to Manetho, the Tanites of the twenty-third dynasty were followed by the twenty-fourth dynasty, consisting of a single Saite, Bokkhoris, whom the monuments call Bak-n-ran-f.

In Egypt the power of the Saite kings rested upon the support of their Greek mercenaries.

In the Saite period this is replaced by the more general title of “Beginning of the Chapter of going forth from day.”

It has more variety of colour than the glazed faience, light green and a dark indigo blue being found as well as the Saite light blue.