Sacred Annals Author:George Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HISTORY AND RELIGION THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER I. EGYPT: ITS HISTORY. View of Egypt—Difficulties which oppose onr Acquaintance with its Earl... more »y History—Undoubted Evidence of High Civilization in the most Remote Times— Prowess and Reign of Amosis—Eighteenth Dynasty—Death of Jacoh—Wonderful Perfection of Mechanical Art—Duath of Joseph—Moses—The Exodus—Cunaanitish Nations weakened by Egyptian Invasion before the Israelites crossed the Jordan— Sesostris—Nineteenth Dynasty—Sethos—His Conquests—The Absence of further Allusion to Canaan on the Monuments, a striking Proof of the Truth of Scripture— Twmttbth Dynasty—TwEXTY-nusT Dynasty—Effect of the Commercial Pol icy of the Hebrews on Egypt—Twenty-Second Dynasty—Shishak—His Invasion of Judea— Twevty-thitid Dynasty—Decline of Egyptian Power—Twenty-fourth Dynasty— Bocchoris—Twenty-hfth Dynasty—Tarkus—Twenty-sixth Dynasty—The Dodee- archy—Triumph ami Ri'igu of P.samiuiticus—Pharaoh-Necho—His Victory over the Hebrews—Aprics, the Pharaoh-Hophra of Scripture—Defeated and put to death by Amosis—Conquest of Egvpt by a Persian Army—Twenty-seventh Dynasty—Era of Persian Rule—Successful Government of Darius—Gallant Effort of Inaros—His Defeat and Death—Herodotus—Twexty-ehirth Dynasty—Amyrta-us—Twenty-Ninth Dy- 3ASTY—Thirtieth Dynasty—Chronological Difficulties—Persian Invasion defeated— Slothful Habits and Ultimate Energy of Darius Ochus—Thirty-fihst Iynasty— Persian Rule reestablished—Thirty-second Dynasty—Conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great—His profound and successful Political and Commercial Policy— Alexandria built—Ruin of the Macedonian House—Thirty-third Dynasty—The Ptolemies—Lagus—His Successful Rule—Power and Cultivation of Egypt under Philadelphus—Euergetes successful in War—Intercourse between Egypt and Rome— Gradua...« less