CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Reign of the gods—Osiris, Isis, and Horus Myth—Ancient Cities and early Kings,[ 1]
CHAPTER II.
The Pyramid Builders,[17]
CHAPTER III.
The Pyramid Builders—continued,[29]
CHAPTER IV.
Civil War and Break-up of the Kingdom—Reunion and Recovery,[41]
CHAPTER V.
Twelfth Dynasty—‘Instructions’ of Amenemhat i.—Story of Saneha,[49]
CHAPTER VI.
Successors of Amenemhat i.—Two Provinces added to Egypt,[64]
CHAPTER VII.
Invasion and Rule of the Hyksos—War of Liberation. (Circa 2100-1600 b.c.),[79]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Eighteenth Dynasty—Queen Hatasu and Thothmes iii. (Circa 1600-1400 b.c.),[88]
CHAPTER IX.
The Eighteenth Dynasty—continued. (Circa 1600-1400 b.c.),[125]
CHAPTER X.
The Nineteenth Dynasty (circa 1400-1200 b.c.)—Rameses the Great,[142]
CHAPTER XI.
Thebes; its People, Temples, and Tombs—Close of the Nineteenth Dynasty,[175]
CHAPTER XII.
Twentieth and Twenty-first Dynasties—The Ramessidæ and the Priest-Kings.
(Circa 1200-970 b.c.),[212]
CHAPTER XIII.
Shishak i. and the Twenty-second (Bubastite) Dynasty—The Ethiopian Kings—The
Assyrians in Egypt—Sack of Thebes. (Circa 970-666 b.c.),[237]
CHAPTER XIV.
Psammetichus and the Saite Dynasty—The Persian Conquest—Last Independent Dynasties.
(666-340 b.c.),[263]
Appendix I.—Table of Dynasties,[288]
Appendix II.—Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs,[290]