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CHRONOLOGICAL REMARKS. [Part II.
commencement of the Eighteenth Dynasty, separated
by a period of four or five hundred years, is very
strongly marked. During the Eighteenth Dynasty, as
well as the Nineteenth and Twentieth, we can often
distinguish the sculptures of the time of one King
from those of the time of another a century later, by
the style. When the arts in Egypt had attained their
highest degree of excellence, their decline commenced,
and continued until the time of the Twenty-sixth Dy-
nasty, when there was a remarkable revival; but the
decline of the arts continued after this uninterruptedly
until the time of the latest monuments : and throughout
this long period, we can generally distinguish the relative
ages of monuments by the style of their sculptures
and paintings when separated by an interval equal to
that which I find to have divided the Suphises from
the Twelfth Dynasty. Thus the chronology of the
Egyptian monuments, confirmed by the style of their
sculptures and inscriptions, shows the length of the
interval from the Suphises to Amenemha II.; while
Manetho, according to Africanus, properly understood,
agrees as to the duration of the period in ques-
tion. This, it should be remarked, is the most dis-
puted part of Egyptian Chronology; there being but
little dispute concerning the interval from Menes to the
Suphises. I must beg the reader to remember, in this
place, the authorities upon which the ascertaining of
the length of the interval from the Suphises to Amen-
emha II. is based. They are inscriptions on the
Egyptian monuments, copied by me, so that I have not
to rely upon others, and can myself put them forth
with confidence: and the calculations by which these
inscriptions have been elucidated, originally made by
CHRONOLOGICAL REMARKS. [Part II.
commencement of the Eighteenth Dynasty, separated
by a period of four or five hundred years, is very
strongly marked. During the Eighteenth Dynasty, as
well as the Nineteenth and Twentieth, we can often
distinguish the sculptures of the time of one King
from those of the time of another a century later, by
the style. When the arts in Egypt had attained their
highest degree of excellence, their decline commenced,
and continued until the time of the Twenty-sixth Dy-
nasty, when there was a remarkable revival; but the
decline of the arts continued after this uninterruptedly
until the time of the latest monuments : and throughout
this long period, we can generally distinguish the relative
ages of monuments by the style of their sculptures
and paintings when separated by an interval equal to
that which I find to have divided the Suphises from
the Twelfth Dynasty. Thus the chronology of the
Egyptian monuments, confirmed by the style of their
sculptures and inscriptions, shows the length of the
interval from the Suphises to Amenemha II.; while
Manetho, according to Africanus, properly understood,
agrees as to the duration of the period in ques-
tion. This, it should be remarked, is the most dis-
puted part of Egyptian Chronology; there being but
little dispute concerning the interval from Menes to the
Suphises. I must beg the reader to remember, in this
place, the authorities upon which the ascertaining of
the length of the interval from the Suphises to Amen-
emha II. is based. They are inscriptions on the
Egyptian monuments, copied by me, so that I have not
to rely upon others, and can myself put them forth
with confidence: and the calculations by which these
inscriptions have been elucidated, originally made by