Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

THE

HISTORY OF EGYPT.

CHAPTEE I.

IN TBODUCTOBY.

It is the purpose of this work to collect what the
monuments and books tell of the history of that most
remarkable land and people on the favoured banks of
the Nile, beginning with the first native king, Mena. Iu
spite of all that has perished, never to be recovered,
the last thirty years have brought to light an extra-
ordinary and almost unexpected wealth of new dis-
coveries. A walk through the rooms of the Egyptian
Museum at Gizeh brings us at each step to monuments
of the most remote ages, and there, there may be seen an
unbroken series of new witnesses of the old time, raised
out of the earth into the light of day, to give informa-
tion about the long-vanished past, whose starting-point
can no longer be reached even by the remotest stages
m the ordinary historical measurement of time.

The Tablets of Saqqarah and Abydos, both contain-
ing a selection of Egyptian monarchs from the first
Pharaoh Mena onwards, give the most authentic evi-
dence, now no longer to be doubted, that the primeval

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