Manetho is the source for two events from Bakenranef's reign. The first is the story that a lamb uttered the prophecy that Egypt would be conquered by the Assyrians, a story later repeated by such classical authors as Claudius Aelianus ("De Natura Animalis" 12.3). The second was that Bakenranef was captured by Shebitqo, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, who executed Bakenrenef by having him burned alive. A Kushite king, Shebitqo extended his rule over the whole of Egypt, which had been split since the Twenty-first dynasty.