The long-reigning Psamtik I, founder of the …
Years: 633BCE - 622BCE
The long-reigning Psamtik I, founder of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty and pharaoh of Egypt from 663, besieges Ashdod for twenty-nine years according to the Greek historian Herodotus.
Together with the other Philistine cities, it becomes an Egyptian vassal during the second half of the sixth century.
