ABSTRACT
It was in the seventh century B.C. that the Nile Valley felt the impact of the Iron Age. It was not a gentle impact, for the driving force was the army of Assyria, by then fully equipped with iron weapons. About the middle of the eighth century B.C., the King ofCush, fully Egyptianised if he was not of Egyptian stock, imposed his rule on Egypt, uniting it, and then set about to restore the ancient glory of Egypt by bringing back the old customs and beliefs that it had abandoned under the New Kingdom, circa 1500 B.C.
