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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Names in Manetho (III)

Petsabast.

Osorchon.

Names in Manetho (III) — from Rameses the Great (1902)

Uasorkan.

Psammus.

Psamut.

Zet ['Tnephachthus.] Era of the foundation of Rome 754. The Chaldean era of Nabonatzar 747. It is common consent to identify Ua-sork-an with Serak, who, according to the Chronicles of Kings, ch. xiv., was defeated near Maresa, by Asa, king of Judah, about the year 950 B. C.

Under this and the following dynasty, the decadence of Egypt went on with accelerated speed, the vassal peoples shook off the yoke, and a rival power arose in Ethiopia.

While the Egyptians lacked a fixed era to which they could assign the dates of each reign, the Greeks contemporaneous with Petsabast founded the era of the Olympiads. (776 B. C.) 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.
Era of the foundation of Rome 754. The Chaldean era of Nabonatzar 747.

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