Rameses the Great; or, Egypt 3300 Years Ago

Egypt under the greatest of the pharaohs, written when the hieroglyphs had only just begun to speak — Rameses II's wars, monuments and household, with thirty-nine wood engravings.

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The Campaigns of Rameses the Great

2 pages

Rameses II

6 pages

The Monuments of Rameses the Great

The Testimony of Herodotus, of Diodorus, and of the Bible.- Memphis and Thebes. -the Great Days of Royalty. -An Artesian Well in the time…

List of Illustrations

The Temples of Phile (restored) Hypostylic Hall at Karnak.

Egypt Before the Time Of

10 pages

The Goddess Maut

(The grand-mother and companion of Ammon.) "I come to render homage to the sovereign of the gods, Ammon-Ra, the governing and controlling…

The God Khons

(Son of Maut and Ammon.) "We approach thee, to serve thy Majesty, Oh, sovereign lord, Ammon-Ra! grant a pure and safely established life to…

The Queen Nofre-Ari

4 pages

The Great

Situation, Wealth and Population of Egypt, on the Accession of Rameses. The plausible Motives for his Expeditions.- -Two Razzias at an…

Eygpt 3300 Years Ago

6 pages

Claplant Ante

Asiatic Races, hostile to the Egyptians (from the monuments). ment, to wit: the great peril to which Rameses was exposed, when separated…

Extracts from the Sallier Papyrus

6 pages

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Highlights

Synchronisms and Observations (Th Dynasty Xoite kings)

14th Dynasty.-Xoite. 76 kings in Lower Egypt. sion of the Hycsos. 17th Dynasty.-Hycsos. parallel to the following, composed of…

Names in Manetho (According to the canon kings)

According to the canon 6 kings. 185 APPENDIX. 42 According to the monuments, it is in this dynasty that we must range 9 kings. 4…

Names in Manetho (Many son of Chaos)

The name of Athot or AT-aud signifles, according to Eratosthenes, the learned librarian of Alexandria, descendant or son of…

Names in Manetho (II)

Memphis because the kings that compose them have their burial Chafra being the brother, and Men-ka-ra, the son of Chuffu [for…

Names in Manetho

Men-ka-ra. 284 * This king, the first of whom epigraphy has has found certain traces, seems to have reigned over Lower Egypt and…

Synchronisms and Observations (II)

Sesostris. 4. 5. Lamares. 5. Ameres. 7. Amenemes. 8. Skemiophris. 13th 60 kings.

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