CHAPTER XIV.

Psammetichus and the Saite Dynasty—The Persian Conquest— Last Independent Dynasties. (666-340 B.C.), 263

APPENDIX I.—Table of Dynasties, 288

APPENDIX II.—Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs, 290

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

TAI-TI, QUEEN OF AMENHOTEP III., _Frontispiece_ WINGED FIGURE,—ISIS OR NEPHTHYS, PAGE 2 ISIS SUCKLING HORUS, 4 THE SPHINX, 18 THE PYRAMIDS, 23 NETTING BIRDS, 31 CARESSING A GAZELLE, 63 BOATMEN AND CATTLE DRIVERS, 68 PAINTING A STATUE, 72 CARVING A STATUE, 73 ASIATIC IMMIGRANTS, 76 AMENHOTEP PRESENTED TO AMEN-RA BY HORUS, 118 AMENHOTEP II. ON THE LAP OF A GODDESS, 122 AMENHOTEP III., 128 THE COLOSSI AT THEBES, 129 RAMESES II., 162 HALL IN THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU-SIMBEL, 166 DISCOVERY OF MUMMIES AT DEIR EL BAHARI, 173 TEMPLE AND GARDEN, 177 THE SACRED ARK, 181 PLAYING AT DRAUGHTS, 184 THE WEIGHING OF ACTIONS, 193 MUMMY AND MUMMY-CASE OF THE PRIEST NEBSENI, 231 MUMMY OF A GAZELLE, 235 THE WORSHIP OF APIS, 244 SPHINX WITH HUMAN HANDS, 287

THE PHARAOHS AND THEIR PEOPLE.