SECTION V.
HISTORY OF THE PERIOD OF THE EIGHTEENTH
AND NINETEENTH DYNASTIES.
I have now to consider the most brilliant period of
Egyptian history, the rale of the Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth Dynasties,] during which the kingdom rapidly
rose in power, until the nations of Asia and Africa,
from] the Tigris to Abyssinia, became tributary states
under the control of the Pharaohs. A complete exami-
nation of Manetho's lists and the monumental history of
these Dynasties would fill volumes; and therefore I shall
chiefly confine myself, in the present work, to certain
remarkable points upon which I conceive new light
may be thrown, and to the chronology of the period.
I shall first give a table of the Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth Dynasties according to the lists of Manetho.
HISTORY OF THE PERIOD OF THE EIGHTEENTH
AND NINETEENTH DYNASTIES.
I have now to consider the most brilliant period of
Egyptian history, the rale of the Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth Dynasties,] during which the kingdom rapidly
rose in power, until the nations of Asia and Africa,
from] the Tigris to Abyssinia, became tributary states
under the control of the Pharaohs. A complete exami-
nation of Manetho's lists and the monumental history of
these Dynasties would fill volumes; and therefore I shall
chiefly confine myself, in the present work, to certain
remarkable points upon which I conceive new light
may be thrown, and to the chronology of the period.
I shall first give a table of the Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth Dynasties according to the lists of Manetho.