Produced by David Widger HISTORY OF EGYPT From 330 B.C. to the Present Time By S. RAPPOPORT, Doctor of Philosophy, Basel; Member of the Ecole Langues Orientales, Paris; Russian, German, French Orientalist and Philologist VOL. XI. Containing over Twelve Hundred Colored Plates and Illustrations THE GROLIER SOCIETY PUBLISHERS, LONDON [Illustration: Spines] [Illustration: Cover] [Illustration: Frontispiece] Dam at Aswan [Illustration: 001.jpg PAGE IMAGE] [Illustration: 002.jpg PAGE IMAGE] THE ROMAN, CHRISTIAN, AND ARABIC PERIODS _THE ROMAN ADMINISTRATION IN EGYPT--THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY--THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY--THE GROWTH OF MONASTICISM--THE DECLINE OF ALEXANDRIA--THE ARAB INVASION AND THE SPREAD OF MUHAMMEDANISM--THE ARAB DYNASTIES._ _Augustus remodels the government of Egypt--A new calendar introduced--Egypt surveyed--Dissension between Jews and Greeks at Alexandria--Strabo's visit--The Egyptian religion at Rome--Wise administration of Tiberius--The rise of the Therapeutae--Lake Maeris destroyed--The origin of Chemistry--The fable of the Phoenix--Christianity introduced--Fiscal reforms under Galba--Vespasian in Egypt--Fall of Jerusalem--The Nile Canal restored--Hadrian's voyage up the Nile--Death of Antinous--Christians and Gnostics--Astrology and Astronomy--Roman roads in Egypt--Commerce and Sports--The Growth of Christianity--Severus visits Egypt--The massacre of the Alexandrians--Ammonius Saccas and the Alexandrian Platonists--The School of Origen--Rise of Controversy--Decline of Commerce--Zenobia in Syria--Growing importance of the Arabs--Revolt and recapture of Alexandria--Persecution of the Christians under Diocletian--Introduction of the Manichean heresy._