Dynasties 22-23 (the later Libyan kings: Osorkons, Takelots, Shoshenqs)

A summary entry for the crowded Libyan field of the later Third Intermediate Period, the many kings named Osorkon, Takelot, and Shoshenq of Dynasties 22 and 23, who ruled increasingly fragmented and overlapping domains from Tanis, Bubastis, and Leontopolis. All are historical, but their numbering, sequence, and the very split between Dynasties 22 and 23 follow Kitchen's framework and are actively contested by recent scholarship, so this period should never be presented as settled.