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HISTORY.
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3. The third stem is that which is called the
New Empire. It commences with the eighteenth
dynasty and terminates with Alexander. The
most brilliant epoch of the New Empire, that
of which the most frequent and glorious traces
are met with during a voyage on the Nile, cor-
responds to the eighteenth, nineteenth, and
twentieth dynasties. It is the age of the
Thothmes', the Amenophises, and the Rameses'.
It is also the time of Moses (nineteenth dyn-
asty). But this brilliancy was not to last, and
when Shishak (twenty-second dynasty) took
Jerusalem, the decline of Egypt had already
begun.
4. The fourth stem, to which the general
name of Lower Period is given, includes the
Greek dynasty founded by Alexander and that
°f the Roman emperors, who were kings of
Egypt by the same right as Cambyses and Darius.
The history of this epoch, entirely taken up as it
is with a fruitless competition for the throne,
possesses but a feeble interest. The traveller in
Upper Egypt, however, should not pass it by
because the temples of Philae, of Edfou, of
Ombos, of Denderah, and of Esneh, that is to
s&y, the most complete monuments which we
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3. The third stem is that which is called the
New Empire. It commences with the eighteenth
dynasty and terminates with Alexander. The
most brilliant epoch of the New Empire, that
of which the most frequent and glorious traces
are met with during a voyage on the Nile, cor-
responds to the eighteenth, nineteenth, and
twentieth dynasties. It is the age of the
Thothmes', the Amenophises, and the Rameses'.
It is also the time of Moses (nineteenth dyn-
asty). But this brilliancy was not to last, and
when Shishak (twenty-second dynasty) took
Jerusalem, the decline of Egypt had already
begun.
4. The fourth stem, to which the general
name of Lower Period is given, includes the
Greek dynasty founded by Alexander and that
°f the Roman emperors, who were kings of
Egypt by the same right as Cambyses and Darius.
The history of this epoch, entirely taken up as it
is with a fruitless competition for the throne,
possesses but a feeble interest. The traveller in
Upper Egypt, however, should not pass it by
because the temples of Philae, of Edfou, of
Ombos, of Denderah, and of Esneh, that is to
s&y, the most complete monuments which we