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[[File: MET_PsamtekI.jpg|300px250px|thumbnail|left|Bust of Psamtek I in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]]__NOTOC__
Psamtek I (ruled 664-610 BC), often referred by his Greek name Psammetichus, is considered one of ancient Egypt’s greatest kings because he saved the civilization from centuries of cultural decline and foreign rule. Beginning in the middle of the Twentieth Dynasty, around 1150 BC, Egypt began a long yet steady decline where it first lost its imperial possessions and then was overcome by a series of Libyan invasions and migrations.
