Egyptian Chronicles (Volume 1); With a Harmony of Sacred and Egyptian Chronology, and an Appendix on Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1861. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... " Dyn. XXVII. of Fni Persian kingt: 1. Cambyses in the fifth year of his reign over the Persians conquered Egypt and reigned over it . 6 2. Darius, son of Hystaspes 36 3. Xerxes the Great . 21 4. Artabanus . . . -- 7m 5. Artaxerxes . . .41 6. Xerxes. . . . -- 2m 7. Sogdianus . . . -- 7"' 8. Darius, son of Xerxes . 19 " Sum 124.4- 124 4a " Dyn. XXVIII., Amyrtams a Saite, reigned yean 6. " Dyn. XXIX. of IV Mendesian kings: 1. Nepherites . . .6 2. Achoris . . .13 3. Fsammouthis . . 1 4. Nepherites, or Neforotis -- 4m " Sum 20.4m- 20 4m uDyn. XXX. of tn Sebennyte kings: 1. Nectanebes, who reigned years . . .18 2. Teos .... 2 3. Nectanebos . . .18 " Sum 38 38 " Dyn. XXXI of III Persian kings: 1. Ochus in the 20th year of his reign over the Persians conquered Egypt and reigned over it years . . 6 2. Arses .... 3 3. Darius .... 4 13 " Sum of the years of Book ID ., 1050." " Here Manetho ends." These two notices are both at least as early as the time of African us, whose Manetho as completed and re-edited by Ptolemy of Mendes had not only xxx but xxxi dynasties.] With this scheme of the Manetho of Africanus, as collected from Eusebius and Syncellus, we have now to confront such earlier notices as refer certainly to the work of the original Manetho. Now that the original AtyvirnaKa of Manetho the Sebennyte were divided into three books is a point on which all are agreed; and if he wrote, as Syncellus says he did, " Kara filfit]aiv Brjpooaaov" in imitation of Berosus, whose XaXBaiKu were in three books, it was probably this fact that suggested to him a similar distribution of his own work. However this was, Josephus gives us " from Book II." of Manetho a passage containing an account of the Shepherd Kings, and the same list of six names which forms Dy...