Aahmes, Amosis; its founder 1700 Amenhotep I. (Amenophis) 1666 Thothmes I. (Thotmosis) 1633 Thothmes II. and his sister-wife Hatshepsu 1600 Thothmes III. Amenhotep II., Son of Thothmes III. 1566 Thothmes IV. 1533 Amenhotep III., Son of Queen Mutemna 1500 Amenhotep IV., afterwards called Khuenaten 1466 Nineteenth Dynasty. Rameses I. 1400 Seti I. (Sethos) Menephtah 1366 Rameses II. (Sesostris) Miamun 1333 Menephtah II. (Menepthes) 1300 Seti II. Menephtah III., son of Menephtah II. 1266 Setnakht-Merer-Miamun II. 1233 Rameses II. was the Pharaoh of the Oppression; and the Israelites left Egypt in the reign of his successor, Menephtah. 3. _The Finding of the Mummies._ In 1878 the Khedive Said Pasha authorised Professor Maspero to found a Museum at Boulak (a suburb of Cairo), for the reception of all the antiquities found in the country and calculated to throw light on Egyptian history. Under the successive direction of Professor Maspero and Professor Grébaut the collection has become one of the most valuable and most instructive in the world. In 1881 the museum was enriched by the most important archæological discovery of modern times. On the 5th of July of that year a cave in the plain of Deir el-Bahari, near Thebes, was explored, and its rich contents were bodily removed to Boulak. They consisted of mummies of kings, queens, and princesses, and other persons of distinction, with numerous articles of clothing, papyri, vases, &c. Hieratic inscriptions on the coffins of several of the kings gave the date of the transfer of the bodies from their original sepulchres in the valley of Bab el Malook, near Luxor, to this pit or tomb, and also of the periodical inspection to which the depôt was subjected. The cave is proved to be the tomb of the Priest-Kings of Amen, the usurpers of the throne of the Ramessides, from Her-Hor to Pinotem III. The reason for bringing so many kings of different dynasties into this tomb is not accurately known; but the following circumstances afford ground for reasonable conjecture.