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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Monumental Names (II)

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

Rameses VII, 6. Rameses VIII, 7. Tum-Merj. 8. Rameses IX. 9. Rameses X. 10. Rameses XI. 11. Rameses XII. 12. Rameses XIII. 178 The date of the year 1300 B. C., calculated by Biot, falls in the reign of this king. (The first certain date of Egyptian history. The year 1240 B. C., the 2d certain date calculated by Biot, belongs to this reign.

MONUMENTAL NAMES.
MONUMENTAL NAMES.

With this dynasty ends the supremacy of Egypt over Mesopotamiaprobable epoch of the foundation of Nineveh and of the reign of Ninus of classical fame. (1200-1150 B. C.) NAMES IN MANETHo.

Years assigned. to the Chronicles of Kings, ch. xiv., was defeated near Maresa, by Under this and the following dynasty, the decadence of Egypt went on with accelerated speed, the vassal peoples shook off the yoke, and a While the Egyptians lacked a fixed era to which they could assign the dates of each reign, the Greeks contemporaneous with Petsabast Rival Dynasty of the high priests of Thebes.

Pe-hor.

Pai-hanch.

Pai-n-Tchen.

Ba-men-cheper. 21st Dynasty. Tanite.

Monumental Names (II) — from Rameses the Great (1902)
Era of the foundation of Rome 754. The Chaldean era of Nabonatzar 747.
Era of the foundation of Rome 754. The Chaldean era of Nabonatzar 747.

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