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ten years' digging in egypt
AkhaianSj Turseni, and others had pushed into Egypt
from the west, and that they had settled in the Nile
valley to even somewhat south of the Fayiim. This
place was evidently then one of their settlements, and
its sudden fall under Mcrenptah just agrees to his
expulsion of all these foreigners in the fifth year of
105. Blue-glazed Vases, i :6.
his reign. We have here then before our eyes the
remains of that great invasion which has always
hitherto been a literary shadow without material
substance.
As before mentioned, the marks on pottery so often
found in the town of the twelfth dynasty at Illahun, are
also found at Gurob. The list of signs used is some-
what different, but the greater part may be identified ;
and it is impossible to deny that they are the same
as a whole, though naturally modified by alteration,
addition, and omission, in the course of a thousand
years. Having now, therefore, this body of signs in
use in j 200 b.C. in a town occupied by people of the
Aegean and Asia Minor, Turseni, Akhaians, Hittites,
and others, it will require a very certain proof of the
ten years' digging in egypt
AkhaianSj Turseni, and others had pushed into Egypt
from the west, and that they had settled in the Nile
valley to even somewhat south of the Fayiim. This
place was evidently then one of their settlements, and
its sudden fall under Mcrenptah just agrees to his
expulsion of all these foreigners in the fifth year of
105. Blue-glazed Vases, i :6.
his reign. We have here then before our eyes the
remains of that great invasion which has always
hitherto been a literary shadow without material
substance.
As before mentioned, the marks on pottery so often
found in the town of the twelfth dynasty at Illahun, are
also found at Gurob. The list of signs used is some-
what different, but the greater part may be identified ;
and it is impossible to deny that they are the same
as a whole, though naturally modified by alteration,
addition, and omission, in the course of a thousand
years. Having now, therefore, this body of signs in
use in j 200 b.C. in a town occupied by people of the
Aegean and Asia Minor, Turseni, Akhaians, Hittites,
and others, it will require a very certain proof of the