CONTENTS


[ CHAPTER I—THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY—(continued) ]

[ CHAPTER II—THE REACTION AGAINST EGYPT ]

[ CHAPTER III—THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE ]




List of Illustrations


[ Spines ]

[ Cover ]

[ Frontispiece ]

[ Titlepage ]

[ 006.jpg a Procession of Negroes ]

[ 015.jpg a Syrian Town and Its Outskirts After an Egyptian Army Had Passed Through It ]

[ 030.jpg the LotanÛ and The Goldsmiths’work Constituting Their Tribute ]

[ 032b.jpg Painted Tablets in the Hall of Harps ]

[ 034.jpg. The Bear and Elephant Brought As Tribute in The Tomb of Rakhmiri ]

[ 040.jpg the Mummy of Thutmosis Iii. ]

[ 041.jpg Head of the Mummy Of ThÛtmosis Iii. ]

[ 044.jpg AmenÔthes Ii., from the Statue at Turin ]

[ 046.jpg the Great Sphinx and The Chapel of Thutmosis Iv. ]

[ 047.jpg the Simoom. Sphinx and Pyramids at Gizeh ]

[ 050.jpg the Stele of The Sphinx Of Gizer ]

[ 052.jpg Queen MutemÛau. ]

[ 052b.jpg Amenothes Iii. Colossal Head in the British Museum ]

[ 052b-text.jpg ]

[ 053.jpg Amenothes Iii. From the Tomb of Khamhait ]

[ 056.jpg Scarab of the Hunt ]

[ 058.jpg a Gang of Syrian Prisoners Making Brick for The Temple of Amon ]

[ 059.jpg One of the Rams Of AmenÔthes Iii ]

[ 062.jpg One of the Lions Of Gebel-barkal ]

[ 065.jpg the Temple at Elephantine, As It Was in 1799 ]

[ 066.jpg the Great Court of The Temple Of Luxor During The Inundation ]

[ 067.jpg Part of the Avenue Of Rams, Between The Temples Of Amon and MaÛt ]

[ 069.jpg the Pylons of ThÛtmosis Iii. And HarmhabÎ At Kaknak ]

[ 070.jpg Sacred Lake Akd the Southern Part of The Temple Of Karnak. ]

[ 073.jpg the Two Colossi of Memnon in The Plain Of Thebes ]

[ 076.jpg a Party of Tourists at the Foot Of The Vocal Statue of Memnok ]

[ 079.jpg Marriage ScarabÆus ]

[ 084.jpg Map ]

[ 087.jpg the Decorated Pavement of The Palace ]

[ 095.jpg the Mask of KihÛniatonÛ ]

[ 096.jpg AmenÔthes Iv., from the Statuette in The Louvre. ]

[ 097.jpg Page Image ]

[ 098.jpg KhÛniatonÛ and his Wife Rewarding One of The Great Officers of the Court ]

[ 100.jpg the Door of a Tomb at Tel El-amarna ]

[ 103.jpg Interior of a Tomb at Tel El-amarna ]

[ 104.jpg Profile of Head Of Mummy (thebes Tombs.) ]

[ 106.jpg Two of the Daughters Of KhÛhi AtonÛ ]

[ 111.jpg Sarcophagus of the Pharaoh AÎ ]

[ 114.jpg Tailpiece ]

[ 117.jpg Page Image ]

[ 123.jpg the First Pylon of HarmhabÎ at Karnak ]

[ 127.jpg Amenothes IV. From a Fragment Used Again By Harmhabi ]

[ 128.jpg Harmhabi ]

[ 129.jpg the Vaulted Passage of The Rock-tomb at Gebel Silsileh ]

[ 131.jpg the Triumph Of HarmhabÎ in The Sanctuary of Gebel Silsileh ]

[ 135.jpg Three Heads of Hittite Soldiers ]

[ 138.jpg a Hittite King. ]

[ 140.jpg a Hittite Chariot With Its Three Occupants ]

[ 146.jpg Map ]

[ 160.jpg Ramses I. ]

[ 163.jpg the Return of The North Wall Of The Hypostyle Hall at Karnak, Where Seti I. Represents Some Episodes in his First Campaign ]

[ 166.jpg Representation of Seti I. Vanquishing the Libyans And Asiatics on the Walls, Karnak ]

[ 168.jpg a Fortified Station on the Route Between The Nile And the Red Sea. ]

[ 169.jpg the Temple of Seti I. At Redesieh ]

[ 170.jpg Fragment of the Map Of The Gold-mines ]

[ 171.jpg the Three Standing Columns of The Temple Of Sesebi ]

[ 173 an Avenue of One Of the Aisles Of The Hypostyle Hall At Karnak ]

[ 174.jpg the Gratings of The Central Colonnade in The Hypostyle Hall at Karnak ]

[ 176.jpg One of the Colonnades Of The Hypostyle Hall In The Temple of Seti I. At Abydos ]

[ 176b.jpg the Facade of The Temple Of Seti ]

[ 181.jpg the Temple of Qurnah ]

[ 184.jpg One of the Pillars Of The Tomb Of Seti I. ]

[ 187.jpg Ramses II. Puts the Negroes to Flight ]

[ 193.jpg the Shardana Guard of Ramses II. ]

[ 195.jpg Two Hittite Spies Beaten by the Egyptian Soldiers ]

[ 196.jpg the Egyptian Camp and The Council of War on The Morning of the Battle Of QodshÛ ]

[ 198.jpg the Garrison of QodshÛ Issuing Forth to Help The Prince of KhÂti. ]

[ 214.jpg KhÂtusaru, Prince of KhÂti, and his Daughter ]

[ 218.jpg Phoenician Boats Landing at Thebes ]

[ 221.jpg the Projecting Columns of The Speos Of Gerf-hosseÎn ]

[ 221.jpg the Caryatides of Gerf-hosseÎn ]

[ 224.jpg the Two Colossi of Abu Simbel to The South Of The Doorway ]

[ 225.jpg the Interior of The Speos Of Abu Simbel ]

[ 228.jpg the Face of The Rock at Abu Simgel ]

[ 229.jpg Ramses Ii. Pierces a Libyan Chief With his Lance ]

[ 230.jpg Ramses Ii. Strikes a Group of Prisoners ]

[ 231.jpg the Façade of The Little Speos Of Hauthor at Abu Simbel ]

[ 232.jpg Columns of Temple at Luxor ]

[ 233.jpg the Chapel of Thutmosis III. And One Of The Pylons of Ramses Ii. At Luxor ]

[ 235.jpg the Colonnade of Seti I. And The Three Colossal Statues of Ramses II. At Luxor ]

[ 236.jpg Paintings of Chairs ]

[ 237.jpg the Remains of The Colossal Statue Of Ramses Ii. At the Ramesseum ]

[ 238.jpg the Ramesseum ]

[ 240.jpg the Ruins of The Memnonium Of Ramses Ii. At Abydos ]

[ 242.jpg the Colossal Statue of Ramses II. At Mitrahineh ]

[ 245.jpg the Chapel of The Apis Of AmekÔthes III. ]

[ 246.jpg Statue of Khamoisit ]

[ 247.jpg Stele of the Nahr El-kelb ]

[ 248.jpg the Bas-belief of Ninfi ]

[ 249.jpg the Coffin and Mummy of Ramses II ]

[ 253.jpg a Libyan ]

[ 260.jpg Statue of MÎnephtah ]

[ 263.jpg the Chapels of Ramses II. And Minephtah At Sisileh ]

[ 264.jpg Statue of Seti II. ]

[ 265.jpg Seti II. ]

[ 268.jpg Amenmesis ]

[ 281.jpg Table ]

[ 287.jpg Page Image ]

[ 289.jpg NakhtÛsÎt. ]

[ 299.jpg One of the Libyan Chiefs Vanquished by Ramses Iii. ]

[ 300.jpg the Waggons of The Pulasati and Their Confederates ]

[ 301.jpg Pulasati ]

[ 304.jpg a Sihagalasha Chief ]

[ 307.jpg the Army Op Ramses III. On The March, and The Lion-hunt ]

[ 308.jpg the Defeat of The Peoples Of The Sea ]

[ 313.jpg the Captive Chiefs of Ramses Iii. At Medinet-ihabu ]

[ 314.jpg Ramses III. Binds the Chiefs of The Libyans ]

[ 318.jpg the Prince of The Khati ]

[ 320.jpg Signs, Arms and Instruments ]

[ 321.jpg the Colossal Osirian Figures in The First Court At Medinet-habu ]

[ 322.jpg the First Pylon of The Temple ]

[ 327.jpg the Mummy of Ramses III. ]

[ 331.jpg a Ramses of the Xxth Dynasty ]

[ 334.jpg Map: Thebes in the Xxth Dynasty ]

[ 345.jpg Pectoral of Ramses II. ]

[ 347.jpg the Ram-headed Sparrow-hawk in The Louvre ]

[ 348.jpg Decorated Armchair ]

[ 349.jpg Egyptian Wig ]

[ 350.jpg Page Image With Furniture ]

[ 357.jpg the Cat and The Jackal Go off to The Fields With Their Flocks Drawn by Faucher-gudin, from Lepsius. ]

[ 358.jpg the Cat Before Its Judge ]

[ 359.jpg a Concert of Animals Devoted to Music ]


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CHAPTER I—THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY—(continued)