EGYPT UNDER THE PHARAOHS

VOL. II.

LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE

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A

HISTORY OF EGYPT

UNDER THE PHARAOHS

DERIVED ENTIRELY FROM THE MONUMENTS

TO WHICH IS ADDED

A DISCOURSE ON THE EXODUS OF THE ISRAELITES

BY DR HENRY BRUGSCH-BEY

PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN
M.R.S.S. GÖTTINGEN

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE R. ACAD. OF SCIENCES BERLIN, ETC.

TRANSLATED AND EDITED FROM THE GERMAN

(After the unfinished Translation by the late Henry Danby Seymour, F.R.G.S.)

BY PHILIP SMITH, B.A.

AUTHOR OF THE STUDENT'S ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EAST'

SECOND EDITION

WITH A NEW PREFACE, ADDITIONS, AND ORIGINAL NOTES BY THE AUTHOR

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CONTENTS

B.C.

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE NINETEENTH DYNASTY.-THE PEOPLE OF THE KHITA.

Review of the recent Schism

Rise of the Khita, to the N.E. of Egypt

They appear as early as Thutmes III.

They are the Hittites of Scripture.

Their locality, and supremacy in Western Asia

Mention of them and their gods in Egyptian inscriptions.

Their kings, Sapalili, Maurosur, Mauthanar, and Khitasar,

contemporary with Ramses I., Seti I., and Ramses II.

Their deities, Sutekh and his warrior wife, Astartha-Anatha.
Their towns, Daphne and Haleb, certainly fixed
Their military array; non-Semitic names

List of their peoples and cities on the inscriptions

Their supremacy in Western Asia before the Assyrians
1400. I. RAMSES I.: his unknown relation to Dynasty XVIII.
His reign neither long nor remarkable.
Memorial of his coronation, at Karnak

War and Treaty with the king of the Khita

Monument at Wady Halfah. Tomb at Biban-el-Molouk

1366. II. MA-MEN-RA MINEPTAH I. SETI I. (SETHOS)

Celebrated on the national temple at Thebes .

His Great Hall of Columns at Karnak

Wars of Seti depicted on the N. outer wall

Inroads of the E. border nations on the Delta

War of his first year against the Shasu

His route traced from Khetham to Kan'aan

Inscriptions recording his victories

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