The work is intended to provide a chronicle of the 28th, 29th and 30th dynasties[1] – thus the independence interval between the two Persian dominations.
[1] The Chronicle also emphasizes the misrule of the "Medes" (i.e. the Achaemenids) and of the Ptolemies, and prophesies the coming of a native hero who will ascend to the throne and restore an era of order and justice upon Egypt.
[2][3] The anti-Achaemenid themes within the Demotic Chronicle especially focus on Cambyses II, Xerxes I and Artaxerxes III.
It was found during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt and now stored at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Pap.
[1] Despite its cryptic text, analysis of the Demotic Chronicle have allowed, among other things, to integrate the order of succession of the treated pharaohs with the informations provided by Manetho's epitomes.