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CHAPTER VII.
naucratis, and the greeks in egypt.
Since the bombardment of Alexandria by the English
fleet, learned excavators, equipped by the Egypt Ex-
ploration Fund, have been at work in the Delta; and
from their labours important discoveries have resulted in
both Biblical and Classical geography. M. Naville has
determined the position of Pithom-Succoth, the first
station of the Jewish exodus, as well as of the capital
of the Land of Goshen. Mr. Petrie has identified the
palace of Pharaoh at Tahpanhes, a spot very notable in
the story of the later Jewish Captivity; and has further
discovered and excavated, with the help of Mr. Ernest
Gardner, the site of Naucratis,* the meeting-point in the
seventh century b.c., of Egyptian and Greek, and the
fulcrum by which the enterprising Hellenic race brought
the power of their arms and of their wits to bear on the
most ancient and venerable empire in the world. We
must leave it to others to speak of the gains thus result-
ing to Biblical archaeology; our intention is to sketch in
the light of the newly-discovered facts the relations be-
tween the ancient Greeks and Egyptians down to the
final establishment of a Greek dynasty in Egypt.
Whether the first contact between Egyptian and Greek
* Naukratis, Part i. By W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1886. Part ii.
By Ernest a. Gardner, 1888.
CHAPTER VII.
naucratis, and the greeks in egypt.
Since the bombardment of Alexandria by the English
fleet, learned excavators, equipped by the Egypt Ex-
ploration Fund, have been at work in the Delta; and
from their labours important discoveries have resulted in
both Biblical and Classical geography. M. Naville has
determined the position of Pithom-Succoth, the first
station of the Jewish exodus, as well as of the capital
of the Land of Goshen. Mr. Petrie has identified the
palace of Pharaoh at Tahpanhes, a spot very notable in
the story of the later Jewish Captivity; and has further
discovered and excavated, with the help of Mr. Ernest
Gardner, the site of Naucratis,* the meeting-point in the
seventh century b.c., of Egyptian and Greek, and the
fulcrum by which the enterprising Hellenic race brought
the power of their arms and of their wits to bear on the
most ancient and venerable empire in the world. We
must leave it to others to speak of the gains thus result-
ing to Biblical archaeology; our intention is to sketch in
the light of the newly-discovered facts the relations be-
tween the ancient Greeks and Egyptians down to the
final establishment of a Greek dynasty in Egypt.
Whether the first contact between Egyptian and Greek
* Naukratis, Part i. By W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1886. Part ii.
By Ernest a. Gardner, 1888.