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.

Names in Manetho

6 pages in this part of Rameses the Great.

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 Mercury. NAMES…

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 the…

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 Cheops]; how…

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 kings.

Names in Manetho (Line in less than a century)

line, in less than a century and a half, all the names and all the facts comprised in the lapse of time between Thothmes III. and

Names in Manetho (III)

Zet ['Tnephachthus.] Era of the foundation of Rome 754. The Chaldean era of Nabonatzar 747. It is common consent to identify Ua-sork-an…

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