This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...and existed 500 years. The Middle Empire includes dynasties Xlth to XVIIth. The New Empire from XVIIIth to XXXth, and ends with Nectanebo B. C. 339: in all 4,550 years' duration. Adding, then, 4-55 339 ar, d 1877=6,766 years since the accession of Menes, king of Egypt, to our day. Now, it is unprecedented in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...and existed 500 years. The Middle Empire includes dynasties Xlth to XVIIth. The New Empire from XVIIIth to XXXth, and ends with Nectanebo B. C. 339: in all 4,550 years' duration. Adding, then, 4-55 339 ar, d 1877=6,766 years since the accession of Menes, king of Egypt, to our day. Now, it is unprecedented in the world's history, that the whole land of Egypt should have continued during four, or even two thousand years as one united kingdom, under a regular succession of kings reigning over it. In all other empires, Chaldaean, Assyrian, Persian, and even Chinese, the lapse of even two or three centuries has produced revolution, dismemberment and change of government. Egypt, existing as one empire, under one government, for two or three thousand years, is an inadmissible anomaly. The Egyptian records are not to be relied on. In fact, we know that the inscriptions on the monuments (the chief records of their history) were often tampered with; for, cases are known in which royal names and dates have been erased and others substituted for them. Moreover, the late Chevalier Bunsen, one of the most distinguished writers on Egyptian archaeology, and one by no means inclined to abate from its high antiquity, makes some curious developments. He admits that, by recording the names of contemporaneous kings as if they had been successive, by giving to usurpers, to regents of provinces, and to collateral branches of the royal family a place in these venerated records, the list of kings is greatly swelled, and the chronology of the dynasties is much extended; so that while some computers make out 130 or 140 kings, others reckon 350, and some, even, 500. (Kenwick, vol. ii. p. 93.) For instance; under the XVIII dynasty we find, in the genealogical monuments, two...
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