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18th Dynasty (1539 – 1295 BC) Part.2
Eighteenth Dynasty If disproportionate space seem here to have been devoted to a single dynastic problem, the excuse must be firstly the importance of the two great personages who now…
29th Dynasty (399 – 380 BC)
Twenty-ninth Dynasty After conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC the sole aim of Egypt's foreign policy was to defend her independence against an empire which persisted in regarding…
18th Dynasty (1539 – 1295 BC) Part.1
Eighteenth Dynasty Details of the fall of Avaris are given in an inscription engraved on the wall of a tomb at El-Kab belonging to a warrior named 'Ahmose, Son of…
30th Dynasty (380 – 343 BC)
Thirtieth Dynasty After the four months' reign of his son Nepherites II, the kingship passed into the hands of a general from Sebennytus. Manetho's THIRTIETH DYNASTY consists of three members,…
19th Dynasty (1295 – 1186 BC) Part.3
Nineteenth Dynasty That for Egypt herself the reign of Ramesses II was a period of great prosperity cannot be doubted. Monuments of the period, dated and undated, are very numerous,…
31st Dynasty (343 – 332 BC)
Thirty-first Dynasty By Ochus's strategical skill and politcal sagacity Egypt was a Persian province once more. Diodorus (xvi. 51) may here be quoted: Artaxerxes, after taking over all Egypt and…