The Chronology of the Pharaonic History, . . .42

CHAPTER lY.
Men A, AND THE Early Dynasties.— The Pyramids and
Sphinx . 47

CHAPTER V.
Art and Architecture in the Twelfth Dynasty, . . 69

CHAPTER VI.
Semites and the Egyptians, 64

, CHAPTER VIT.
The Time of Foreign Dominion. — Joseph in Egye>t, . 95

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6 CONTENTS.
CHAPTER Vm.
The Eighteenth Dynasty. — Thutmes III., .... 139,

CHAPTER IX.
AmENHOTEP in., AND KhUNATEN, THE HERETIC, . . . 153

CHAPTER X.
The Pharaoh op the Oppression, 168

CHAPTER XI.
The Pharaoh of the Exodus, and a Summary of
Succeeding History, 183

CHAPTER Xn.
The Exodus and the Egyptian Monuments. — A Me-
moir BY Henry Brugsch-Bey, 196



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APPENDIX.
The Table of Abydus, 243

Obelisks of Thutmes III. at Heliopous, .... 248

Notes, : 253

Index, 257



INTRODUCTION.
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" Egypt under the Pharaohs/' by Dr. Henry
Brugsch-Bey, is prominent among the ablest works
upon the history and antiquities of the dead mother
of arts. The author, under the patronage of the
Egyptian government, spent thirty yeai^s in explo-
ration and in the study of inscriptions, mostly in
company with the distinguished French savant^
Mons. Mariette-Bey, whose numerous discoveries
have been fortunately complemented by the pro-
found knowledge and the far-reaching deductions
of his associate.
The most important fact established by their
labors is the verification (in the main) of the chron-
ological tables of Manetho, and the proof of the
high antiquity of the kingdom. This antiquity,
beside which the origin of every other historic
nation is modern, is made clear by many indepen-
dent proofs, sometimes jarring as against each other,
but agreeing in general tendency. The Turin
papyrus, an enormous list of pharaohs, unfortunately

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10 INTRODUCTION.
