. The eastern nations and Greece. e are more connected with his namethan with that of any other oriental chief of Rameses wars werethose against the Kheta, the Hittites ofthe Bible, who at this time were main-taining an extensive empire, embracingin the main the interior uplands of AsiaMinor and northern Syria. We findRameses at last concluding with them acelebrated treaty of peace and alliance,in which the chief of the Hittites isformally recognized as in every respectthe equal of the Pharaoh of meaning of this alliance was that the Pharaohs had met theirpeers in the princ
. The eastern nations and Greece. e are more connected with his namethan with that of any other oriental chief of Rameses wars werethose against the Kheta, the Hittites ofthe Bible, who at this time were main-taining an extensive empire, embracingin the main the interior uplands of AsiaMinor and northern Syria. We findRameses at last concluding with them acelebrated treaty of peace and alliance,in which the chief of the Hittites isformally recognized as in every respectthe equal of the Pharaoh of meaning of this alliance was that the Pharaohs had met theirpeers in the princes of the Hittites, and that they could no longerhope to become inasters of western Asia. It is the opinion of some scholars that this Rameses II was theoppressor of the children of Israel, the Pharaoh who made theirlives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in allmanner of service in the field, ^ and that what is known as theExodus took place in the reign of his son Merneptah (about1225-1215 ). 1 Exod. i, Fig. 21. Phalanx of theHittites In the background, town protectedby walls and moats §29] THE TWENTY-SIXTH DYNASTY 33 29. The Twenty-sixth Dynasty (663-625 ). We pass withoutcomment a long period of several centuries, marked indeed by greatvicissitudes in the fortunes of the Egyptian monarchs, yet characterizedon the whole by a sure and rapid decline in the power and splendorof their empire.^ During the latter part of this period Egypt was tribu-tary to Ethiopia ^ or to Assyria; but a native prince, Psammetichusby name, with the aid of Greek mercenaries, bronze men who cameup from the sea, drove out the foreign garrisons. Psammetichusthus became the founder of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty (663 ). Owing his throne chiefly to the swords of Greek soldiers, Psam-metichus was led to open the country even more completely than
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