The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 01

CHAPTER III

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THE OLD THEBAN KINGDOM (_ca._ 2700-1635 B.C.) 106

The eleventh dynasty, 106. The voyage to Punt, 108. The twelfth dynasty, 110. Monuments of the twelfth dynasty; a classical view, 113. The ruins of Karnak, 115. The fall of the Theban kingdom, 117. The foreign rule, 118. The Hyksos rule; the seventeenth dynasty, 121.