| CHAPTER I. |
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| 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] |
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| Appendix I.—Table of Dynasties, | [288] |
| Appendix II.—Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs, | [290] |