Let us then, for the moment, assume this to be true. What does it tell us? That 700 years B.C. in Egypt the solstice was recognised; a means of determining the instant of midnight with more or less precision was known; observations of the stars were regularly made; the risings of some of them were associated with the rising of the sun, and many of them had been collected into groups or constellations. This is a wonderful result. I suppose that Biot is universally held to have proved his case; in fact, Brugsch, who is now regarded as one of the highest authorities in Egyptian history, has shown that almost every detail seen in the zodiac of Denderah reproduces inscriptions or astronomical figures, unearthed since the date of Biot's memoir, which, without doubt, must be referred to the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty--that is, 1700 B.C. or thereabouts; so that practically the Egyptologist has now chapter and verse for many things in the zodiac of Denderah dating 1,000 years before the period assigned to it by Biot. The next point to notice is connected with the astronomical drawings which have been found in the Ramesseum at Thebes--drawings which also have very obvious connections with the zodiac of Denderah. On these we find the hieroglyphics for the different months--the constellations Orion, Hippopotamus, and Jackal, as we saw them at Denderah, and another form of the constellation of the Thigh. There is certainly the closest connection between the two sets of delineations. [Illustration: RUINS OF THE RAMESSEUM, WHERE THE MONTH-TABLES WERE FOUND.]