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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The Monuments of Rameses the Great

The Testimony of Herodotus, of Diodorus, and of the Bible.- Memphis and Thebes. -the Great Days of Royalty. -An Artesian Well in the time of Rameses. - The Land of Cush. - The Spears of Ipsamboul. - The old Age of Rameses.-Skeletons of Oxen and Skeletons of Kings. - Darius and the Statue of Rameses.

APPENDIX. 161 I. The Cushites........

II. The Temple of Denderah.

III. The Ancient Bed of the Nile 249 250 252 IV.

The Shepherd King Apapias and the God Sutekh. 253 ....

V. The Names of Rameses Il.... 254 VI. The Images of Ancestors..... 257 VII. The Army of Rameses II. -the Military Caste. 261 ..

VIII. The Robus. 263 IX. Manners and Customs of the Egyptians 264 ..

X.

The Stele of the Temple of Khons.

XI. Chronological Canon, or Table of the Dynasties and Kings of Egypt.

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