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_The constitution of the Egyptian empire--The Grown vassals and their relations with the Pharaoh--The kings messengers--The allied states--Royal presents and marriages; the status of foreigners in the royal harem--Commerce with Asia, its resources and its risks; protection gr...
While none of these ephemeral Pharaohs left behind them a, either legitimate or illegitimate, son there was no lack of princesses, any of which, having on her accession to the t...
2. Chapter 2In the year XXXIV. the Egyptians reappeared in Zahi. The people of Anaugasa having revolted, two of their towns were taken, a third surrendered, while the chiefs of the Lotanû h...
6. Chapter 6As in a former crisis, Egypt once more owed her salvation to a scion of the old Theban race. A descendant of Seti I. or Ramses II., named Nakhtûsît, rallied round him the forces...
3. Chapter 3_The birth and antecedents of Harmhabî, his youth, his enthronement--The final triumph of Amon and his priests--Harmhabî infuses order into the government: his wars against the...
1. Chapter 1_The constitution of the Egyptian empire--The Grown vassals and their relations with the Pharaoh--The kings messengers--The allied states--Royal presents and marriages; the sta...
5. Chapter 5_Nalthtâsît and Ramses III.: the decline of the military spirit in Egypt--The reorganisation of the army and fleet by Ramses--The second Libyan invasion--The Asiatic peoples, th...