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.

Monumental Names

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Monumental Names

Cheneres. kai-ra. .kai-n-ra. assigned. Years * This king, the first of whom epigraphy has has found certain traces, seems to have reigned…

Monumental Names (Years assigned)

The territorial unity attempted by the XII. dynasty fails under the fol- lowing dynasties, and a feudal anarchy prevails in Upper and Lower…

Monumental Names (Question upon)

in question upon the above-mentioned stone, committed a serious vations of Lepsius, who has fixed the epoch of Tothmosis from 1603 to 1565…

Monumental Names (II)

1. Rameses III, 2. Rameses IV. 3. Rameses V. 4. Rameses VI.

Monumental Names (III)

Bek-n-renf. 138 Psammetik I. repels an invasion of the Scythians toward 625. Nekau II., marching against Nineveh, is attacked by Josias…

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