CHAPTER II. The Pyramid Builders, 17 CHAPTER III. The Pyramid Builders—_continued_, 29 CHAPTER IV. Civil War and Break-up of the Kingdom—Reunion and Recovery, 41 CHAPTER V. Twelfth Dynasty—‘Instructions’ of Amenemhat I.— Story of Saneha, 49 CHAPTER VI. Successors of Amenemhat I.—Two Provinces added to Egypt, 64 CHAPTER VII. Invasion and Rule of the Hyksos—War of Liberation. (_Circa_ 2100-1600 B.C.), 79 CHAPTER VIII. The Eighteenth Dynasty—Queen Hatasu and Thothmes III. (_Circa_ 1600-1400 B.C.), 88 CHAPTER IX. The Eighteenth Dynasty—_continued_. (_Circa_ 1600-1400 B.C.), 125 CHAPTER X. The Nineteenth Dynasty (_circa_ 1400-1200 B.C.)— Rameses the Great, 142 CHAPTER XI. Thebes; its People, Temples, and Tombs—Close of the Nineteenth Dynasty, 175 CHAPTER XII. Twentieth and Twenty-first Dynasties—The Ramessidæ and the Priest-Kings. (_Circa_ 1200-970 B.C.), 212 CHAPTER XIII. Shishak I. and the Twenty-second (Bubastite) Dynasty—The Ethiopian Kings—The Assyrians in Egypt—Sack of Thebes. (_Circa_ 970-666 B.C.), 237 CHAPTER XIV. Psammetichus and the Saite Dynasty—The Persian Conquest— Last Independent Dynasties. (666-340 B.C.), 263 APPENDIX I.—Table of Dynasties, 288 APPENDIX II.—Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs, 290 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.