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Necho I
Necho I was a ruler of Sais in the western Nile Delta in the 7th century BCE and the father of Psamtik I, founder of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. He became a vassal of Assyria after Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal drove the Kushites from Egypt, and was briefly taken to Nineveh before being restored. He was killed in 664 BCE when the Kushite king Tantamani invaded Egypt.
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