Poole, Reginald S.: Horae Aegypticae: or, the chronology of ancient Egypt: discovered from astronomical and hieroglyphic records upon its monuments, including many dates found in coeval inscriptions from the period of the building of the Great Pyramid to the times of the Persians ; and illustrations of the history of the first nineteen dynasties, shewing the order of their succession, from the monuments (London, 1851)

CONTENTS.

SECTION III.
History of the Period before the Shepherd Invasion.

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Menes, the First King of Egypt......93

Notice of the List of Egyptian Kings given by Herodotus

(Note)..........93

A Remarkable Passage in the Euterpe of Herodotus, respect-
ing the Interval from Menes to Sethon . . . .93

The G enesis of the World, marked by the Rising of Sothis,
according to Porphyry and Solinus . . . . .95

The Era of Menes ascertained from the Statements of Hero-
dotus, Porphyry, and Solinus, and from the Calendar of
the Panegyries ......... 96

The Date of the Dispersion ....... 97

Babylonian and Assyrian Chronology ... 97
Earliest Median and Persian Kings mentioned in History . 98
The Date of the Foundation of Tyre, from Herodotus . . 98
The Reign of the Gods, Demi-gods, and Manes . . .99

The History of Menes........99

Memphis founded by Menes, according to Herodotus . .100

This, and the Thinite Kings.......100

A Table shewing the Arrangement of the List called the

Tablet of Abydos........101

Explanation of the Tablet of Abydos . . . . .102

Athothis, and the other Kings of the First Dynasty . . 103
Boethos, the first King of the Second Dynasty, in whose time
an Earthquake happened . . . . . . .104

Animal-worship . . . . . . . . .105

The second and succeeding Kings of the Second Dynasty . 105
The Third Dynasty, the first of Memphite Kings . . .108

The Fourth Dynasty........109

Erroneous Ideas respecting the Pyramids . . . 109
Contemporaneousness of the Memphites of the Fourth Dynasty

with Elephantinites of the Fifth.....109

Soris, Usercheres, and Sephres ; the last of whom founded
" the Second Pyramid" . . . . . . .113

Nephercheres . . . . . . . . 116

The two Suphises, Shufu, or Suphis L, and Num-shufu, or

Suphis II. . .....116

Cheops, or Chembes, the Founder of the Great Pyramid, the
Shufu, or Khufu, of the Monuments . . . . .118