The hieroglyphs above the Table of Contents read, em rek suteniu tepau, i.e. ‘in the time of former kings,’ and the cartouche at the end of the line is that of ‘Pharaoh,’ to be read Per-aa, i.e. ‘the Great House.’ The hawk is symbolic of divine protection, and the seal it holds is the emblem of renewed and endless life.
E. BERKLEY.
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] |