Editing History of Libya (section)

== Achaemenid and Ptolemaic Libya ==
{{Further|Achaemenid Empire|Ptolemaic Kingdom}}
[[File:Xerxes I tomb Libyan soldier circa 480 BCE.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Libyan soldier of the [[Achaemenid army]], {{circa|480 BCE}}. [[Xerxes I]] tomb relief.]]
In 525 BCE the Persian army of [[Cambyses II]] overran Cyrenaica, which for the next two centuries remained under Persian or Egyptian rule. [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]] was greeted by the Greeks when he entered Cyrenaica in 331 BCE, and Eastern Libya again fell under the control of the Greeks, this time as part of the [[Ptolemaic Kingdom]]. Later, a federation of the Pentapolis was formed that was customarily ruled by a king drawn from the Ptolemaic royal house.