Category: History - Ancient
A few words of preface are needful to justify the addition of another contribution to the over-abundant mass of literature of which Egypt is the subject. It is intended to supplement the books already in the hands of tourists and students, and to put before them just that info...
We have followed Herodotos in his travels through the Delta, have seen him make his way from Kanôpos and Naukratis to Memphis and back again to Pelusium, and it is now time to a...
2. CHAPTER I. THE PATRIARCHAL AGE.“Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.” When he entered the country the civilisation and monarchy of Egypt were already very old. The pyramids had been built hundreds of...
6. CHAPTER V. THE AGE OF THE PTOLEMIES.Judah had profited by the revolution which had been so disastrous to the monarchy of the Nile. The overthrow of the Babylonian empire and the rise of Cyrus had brought deliveran...
8. CHAPTER VII. IN THE STEPS OF HERODOTOS.Let us follow Herodotos in his Egyptian journey and meet him where he landed at the Kanôpic mouth of the Nile. The place had been known to Greek sailors in days of which traditi...
7. CHAPTER VI. HERODOTOS IN EGYPT.From Coptic Christianity, just preparing to confront twelve centuries of Mohammedan persecution, we must now turn back to Pagan Greece. The Persian wars have breathed a new life...
5. CHAPTER IV. THE AGE OF THE ISRAELITISH MONARCHIES.Ramses III. was the last of the great Pharaohs in whose veins ran native Egyptian blood. His successors all bore the same name as himself, but they possessed neither his energy...
3. CHAPTER II. THE AGE OF MOSES.On the eastern bank of the Nile, about midway between Minieh and Assiout, the traveller from Cairo to Assouan passes a line of mounds which are known by the name of Tel el-Amarn...
4. CHAPTER III. THE EXODUS AND THE HEBREW SETTLEMENT IN CANAAN.Ramses II. was the last of the conquering Pharaohs of native Egyptian history. The Asiatic empire of Thothmes III. was in some measure restored by the victories of his father an...
1. Chapter VIII. Memphis And The Fayyûm.A few words of preface are needful to justify the addition of another contribution to the over-abundant mass of literature of which Egypt is the subject. It is intended to suppl...