The True Story of the Exodus of Israel: Together With a Brief View of the History of Monumental Egypt (Classic Reprint)

INTRODUCTION. " Egypt under the Pharaohs," by Dr. Henry Brugsch-Bey, is prominent among the ablest works upon the history and antiquities of the dead mother of arts. The author, under the patronage of the Egyptian government, spent thirty years in exploration and in the study of inscriptions, mostly in company with the distinguished French savant, Mons. Mariette-Bey, whose numerous discoveries have been fortunately complemented by the profound knowledge and the far-reaching deductions of his associate. The most important fact established by their labors is the verification (in the main) of the chronological tables of Manetho, and the proof of the high antiquity of the kingdom. This antiquity, beside which the origin of every other historic nation is modern, is made clear by many independent proofs, sometimes jarring as against each other, but agreeing in general tendency. The Turin papyrus, an enormous list of pharaohs, unfortunately 9

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CONTENTS; PAGE; Introduction,9; CHAPTER I; Origin of the Ancient Egyptians-Their Neighbors, 21; CHAPTER II; Division of the Country - Mental Peculiarities of the Egyptians,28; CHAPTER III The Chronology of the Piiaraonic History, 42; CHAPTER IV; Mena, and the Early Dynasties-The Pyramids and Sphinx47; CHAPTER V; Art and Architecture in the Twelfth Dynasty, • 59; CHAPTER VI Semites and the Egyptians,64; CHAPTER VII; The Time of Foreign Dominion -Joseph in Egypt, 95; 5; 6; CONTENTS; CHAPTER VIII The Eighteenth Dynasty - Tiiutmes HI139; CHAPTER IX; AMENnOTEP III, AND KlIUNATEN, the HERETIC, 153; CHAPTER X; The Pharaoh of the Oppression,ICS; CHAPTER XI; The Pharaoh of the Exodus, and a Summary of Succeeding History,183; CHAPTER XII; The Exodus and the Egyptian Monuments-A Memoir by Henry Brugsch-Bey,196; APPENDIX; The Table of Abydus, 243; Obelisks of Thutmes III at