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38 THE MONUMENTS OF UPPER EGYPT.
It may be that we cannot, strictly speaking, rely
implicitly on the accuracy of the figures which
mark the duration of the different reigns and
dynasties, those figures having been rearranged
by the Christian authors who copied them from
the original work; and, moreover, it may be
surmised that the names of some kings have
been changed or inverted. Be that as it may, if
for one moment we suppose the lists of Manetho
had been entirely lost, through whom should we
have become acquainted with that previous di-
vision into dynasties, and how should we even
know that it ever existed ? The royal names
revealed by the hieroglyphic inscriptions become
every day more and more numerous. How
should we know in what manner to classify
them at all satisfactorily without the lists of
Manetho ? Have not these lists the advantage —
an advantage never sufficiently appreciated — of
showing us at least a road which we may follow?
Among the sources of the history of Egypt,
the Royal Papyrus of Turin, if it were com-
plete, could alone rival Manetho in importance.
C. — CLASSICAL HISTORIANS.
Such persons as may not care to go deeply
into the study of Egyptology may be content to
It may be that we cannot, strictly speaking, rely
implicitly on the accuracy of the figures which
mark the duration of the different reigns and
dynasties, those figures having been rearranged
by the Christian authors who copied them from
the original work; and, moreover, it may be
surmised that the names of some kings have
been changed or inverted. Be that as it may, if
for one moment we suppose the lists of Manetho
had been entirely lost, through whom should we
have become acquainted with that previous di-
vision into dynasties, and how should we even
know that it ever existed ? The royal names
revealed by the hieroglyphic inscriptions become
every day more and more numerous. How
should we know in what manner to classify
them at all satisfactorily without the lists of
Manetho ? Have not these lists the advantage —
an advantage never sufficiently appreciated — of
showing us at least a road which we may follow?
Among the sources of the history of Egypt,
the Royal Papyrus of Turin, if it were com-
plete, could alone rival Manetho in importance.
C. — CLASSICAL HISTORIANS.
Such persons as may not care to go deeply
into the study of Egyptology may be content to