The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 01 : $b Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia — John Shaqi
The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 01 : $b Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia
History
The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 01 : $b Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia
World history
THE ANTIQUITY OF THE EARTH AND OF MAN 40
CHAPTER V
THE RACES OF MAN AND THE ARYAN QUESTION 43
CHAPTER VI
ON PREHISTORIC CULTURE 45
Language, 44. Clothing and housing of prehistoric man, 46.
The use of fire, 46. Implements of peace and war, 47. The
domestication of animals, 47. Agriculture, 48. Government, 49.
The arts of painting, sculpture, and decorative architecture,
50. The art of writing, 50.
PART II. EGYPT
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. EGYPT AS A WORLD INFLUENCE.
By Dr. Adolf Erman 57
EGYPTIAN HISTORY IN OUTLINE (4400-332 B.C.) 65
CHAPTER I
THE EGYPTIAN RACE AND ITS ORIGIN 77
The country and its inhabitants, 81. Prehistoric Egypt, 88.
CHAPTER II
THE OLD MEMPHIS KINGDOM (_ca._ 4400-2700 B.C.) 90
The first dynasty, 90. The second dynasty, 92. The third
dynasty, 92. The pyramid dynasty, 93. A modern account of the
pyramids, 95. The builders of the pyramids, 98. The beautiful
Nitocris, 104.
CHAPTER III
THE OLD THEBAN KINGDOM (_ca._ 2700-1635 B.C.) 106
The eleventh dynasty, 106. The voyage to Punt, 108. The
twelfth dynasty, 110. Monuments of the twelfth dynasty; a
classical view, 113. The ruins of Karnak, 115. The fall of the
Theban kingdom, 117. The foreign rule, 118. The Hyksos rule;
the seventeenth dynasty, 121.
CHAPTER IV
THE RESTORATION (_ca._ 1635-1365 B.C.) 126
Eighteenth dynasty, 126. The Hyksos expulsion: Aahmes and his
successors, 127. Tehutimes II; Queen Hatshepsu, 133. Triumphs
of Tehutimes III; his successors, 136.
CHAPTER V
THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY (_ca._ 1365-1285 B.C.) 141
King Seti, 142. Ramses (II) the Great, 144. The war-poem of
Pentaur, 148. The kingdom of the Kheta and the nineteenth
dynasty, 150. Death of Ramses II, 153.
CHAPTER VI
THE FINDING OF THE ROYAL MUMMIES 155
How came these monarchs here? 157.
CHAPTER VII
THE PERIOD OF DECAY (NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH DYNASTIES:
_ca._ 1285-655 B.C.) 162
Meneptah, 162. From Setnekht to Ramses VIII and Meri-Amen
Meri-Tmu, 166. The sorrows of a soldier, 170. Egypt under the
dominion of mercenaries, 171. The Ethiopian conquest, 174.
Table of contemporaneous dynasties, 179.
CHAPTER VIII
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