Historical researches into the politics, intercourse, and trade of the Carthaginians, Ethiopians, and Egyptians [Unknown Binding]

A. H. L Heeren (Author)

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Publication Date: 1969

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1857. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... full of accounts respecting them ; and from these it is evident, that although Egypt was assaulted on various sides by these tribes, yet, those coming from the east, the Arabs, were by far the most formidable among them.1 , They overran Lower Egypt, and pressed forwards into Middle Egypt, where they took Memphis; they overthrew cities and temples, and built a strong place surrounded with walls, at Avaris, near Pelusium, at the entrance of Egypt, as a place of retreat in case of necessity. They thus founded a kingdom, which comprised the greatest part of Egypt, and which, governed by a succession of monarchs, whose names will be found in Manetho,2 continued for a considerable period. The victors, as is almost always the case with nomad conquerors,3 appear to have adopted many of the customs of the conquered. They established themselves in Lower and Middle Egypt; Memphis was the capital of their empire; it is not, therefore, to be wondered at, that their kings should be enumerated in the series ot Egyptian dynasties. From the little that is said of them by Herodotus,4 it is not altogether an improbable conjecture, that they were the builders of the pyramids, a sort of monument peculiar to Middle Egypt, where they ruled, and which, from their huge size, seem to betray the taste of a semi-barbarous people, who found, among the conquered mechanics and labourers, the means of prosecuting such stupendous undertak 1 The following accounts arc taken from Josephus, contra Apion. Op. p. 1036, ete., who has here preserved ns copious extracts from Manetho. * Josephus mentions six of these kings, who reigned for one hundred and sixty years. The whole continuance of the Hyksos in Egypt, he states at five hundred and eleven years; but if this statement be adopted, there is no d...

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Text: English, German (translation)

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: Negro Universities Press (1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0837117445
• ISBN-13: 978-0837117447
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