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)

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THE REIGN OF

[Part II.

Perhaps these two Kings reigned during a period of
disturbance in the reign of Menptah ; but the monu-
ments do not enable us to decide this question, nor do
they tell us which of them reigned first.

We obtain an approximative date of the commence-
ment of the Eighteenth Dynasty from the date in the
sixteenth year of Queen Amen-numt. From that date

we find the commencement of the Dynasty to have
been about the year B.C. 1525: for it is evident that
the reign of Queen Amen-numt commenced with, or
was reckoned from, the accession of Thothmes II.;
and it is also evident that there is no errour of magni-
tude in the lengths assigned to the preceding reigns.
The commencement of the Nineteenth Dynasty was, I
have no doubt, somewhat before the commencement of
the first Sothic Cycle, B.C. 1322, and its duration some-
what more than a hundred years. I have said enough
to show how impossible it is to fix accurately the
length of the reign of each King: and for this and
other reasons, we cannot yet attempt to draw out a
completely correct list of these Dynasties, the most
perplexing of all those of which Manetho's lists have
come down to us.

The first remarkable point in the history of the
Eighteenth Dynasty, which I have to notice, is the
reign of Queen Amen-numt. This personage, whose
name is not found in Manetho's lists, reigned conjointly
with Thothmes II. and Thothmes III. for some years,