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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Chuffau, Chnum- Chufru.

Soris.

63 living in these three successive reigns ?
63 living in these three successive reigns ?

Snefru.

Souphis I., or (Cheops).

Souphis II.

Mencheres.

Chafra. (Chpehren).

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 peninsula of Sinai. He should be transferred to the head of the IV Dynasty. The first double use ascertained in the lists. 1st. The three first reigns of this dynasty present a total of 158 years. 29 How much must be deducted from this cipher to make it agree with an inscription on a tomb of Gizeh, which shows the Queen Meri-tefs 63 living in these three successive reigns ? 66/2d. According to Manetho, Herodotus and Diodorus, the three kings 63 who constructed the great Pyramids, form but two generations, APPENDIX.

Chafra being the brother, and Men-ka-ra, the son of Chuffu [for

king killed by his guards on account of his tyranny. 2d, It contains
king killed by his guards on account of his tyranny. 2d, It contains
Tatkrara.
Tatkrara.

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