[12] The battle of Carchemish. [See p. 25.]
[13] He lived in the reign of Ptolemy I, B. C. 323-283.
[14] See “Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid,” by Prof. Piazzi Smyth.
[16] Josephus was a Jewish historian, born A. D. 37, the son of a priest, and descended by his mother’s side from the same royal family with the Herods. His greatest work is his “Jewish Antiquities,” in twenty books. The history begins at the Creation of the World, and ends A. D. 66, with the Revolt of the Jews against the Romans.
[18] See Genesis xlvii: 18-26.
[19] The Phœnician name of Carthage signified the New City, distinguishing it either from the neighboring Utica, whose name meant the Old City, or from Byrsa, the first fortress of Dido. When New Carthage (Carthagena) was built upon the coast of Spain, the original settlement began to be called by the Romans Carthago Vetus, which is as if we should say “Old Newtown.”