The political division that occurred in Egypt after the death of Ramses XI, in which the pharaonic power centered in the Delta region was counterbalanced by the power of the high priests of Amon, based on Thebes, thus found its point of balance.There is no agreement between scholars on the exact duration of Psusennes I’s reign, even though it certainly exceeded 40 years. Psusennes I’s name is sparsely attributed to Upper Egypt, where the high priests of Amon continued to present themselves with gift attributes.
Relations with the Theban priestly caste had to be in the pacific complex, since Psusennes I’s brother Menkheperra, high priest of Amon, during his reign, married the daughter of the king. To build a center of worship and power that could compete with the temple of Karnak in Tebe, the pharaoh worked at the temple of Amon and Khonsu in Tanis, the new dynastic capital of the Delta, building the new sacred enclosure, inside it, in 1939, the French archaeologist Pietre Monte found The burials of Psusennes I and other rulers of the XXI and XXIII Dynasty.The graves of Psusennes I and his son Amenemope were found intact: the pharaoh’s body was inside a red granite sarcophagus, which in turn contained another anthropoid sarcophage in black granite and another silver interior. The two stone sarcophagi had been usurped to pharaoh Merenptah (19IX Dynasty) and a nobleman from the same dynasty. On the face of the mummy, irreparably compromised in preservation, was supported a golden mask with inlays, second only to Tutankhamun’s. Several valuable objects from the funeral aisle have been recovered and exhibited today at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.