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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Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Pelasgi

APPENDIX. other gods have always existed among the Egyptians. I here repeat what they themselves declared to me. The divinities of whom they say they do not know the names seem to me to have been named by the Pelasgi, excepting Neptune (Poseidon). The Libyans were they who revealed this last divinity to us: no one pronounced his name previously, and they have always honored him as a god. The Egyptians do not worship heroes.

LI. The Greeks have learned from the Egyptians the customs which I have already mentioned and others that I shall speak of hereafter.

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