Egypt : handbook for travellers / edited by K. Baedeker.

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1885-1892
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    M. 1703. L. 1591. W. 1520. M. 1402. L. 1443. W. 1340. XIV. DYNASTY (Khoites, from Khois, situated to tlie N.E. of Sais). XV. DYNASTY (Hyksos). XVI. DYNASTY (Hyksos). XVII. DYNASTY (Diospolites). We learn from a papyrus in tlie British Museum that the Hyksos monarch Apepi demanded the cession of an import- ant well from Rasekenen, the king of Upper Egypt (17th dyn.). This incident gave rise to the outbreak of a war of independence which lasted for eighty years. XVIII. DYNASTY (Diospolites; pp. 446, 479). Aahmes I. (Amosis, or Amasis; p. 302) captured Abaris (Ha-war) after a long siege by land and by water. The Hyksos (numbering, according to Manetho, 24,000 men capable of bearing anus) were obliged to retreat and to seek a new territory, and most of them accordingly settled in S. Palestine. The successors of Aahmes penetrated far into Asia, subjugated one nation after another, exacted heavy tribute from the vanquished, and embellished Thebes, their capital, with magnificent edifices. Amenhotep I. (Gr. Amenophthis). Tutmes (Thothmes) I. (Gr. Amends). Tuimes II. (Gr. Misaphris) and Ramaka, his sister and wife. Tutmes III. (Gr. Misphragmuthosis; pp. 298, 363, 522) extended his conquests as far as the vicinity of the Tigris. Tutmes IV. (Gr. Tutlimosis). Amenhotep III. (Gr. Amenophis; pp. 385, 406) not only continued to exact tribute from the Oriental nations as far as Mesopotamia, but succeeded in extending his dominions towards the south. He was also remarkable for his extra- ordinary building enterprise. Amenhotep IV. (Gr. Horus) returned to the earlier and ruder religion of worshipping the sun. For his name Ame- nophis (‘peace of Ammon’) he therefore substituted Klm- en-aten (‘reflection of the sun’s disk’). Ramses I. (Rhamesses ,• pp. 427, 435, 453). XIX. DYNASTY (Diospolites, pp. 162, 427, 453). Setil. (pp. 313, 427, 435,453) undertook several campaigns against the Aramaic tribes, who had formed a league under tlie hegemony of the powerful Kheta (or Khittim, tlie Hittites of the Bible), and penetrated as far as the Orontes. He erected the Meinnonium atAbydus, and caused a sepulchre to be hewn for himself in the rock at Thebes. He caused Ramses, his son and successor, to be educated along with other young Egyptian nobles, and it is possible that Moses formed one of the number (Exod. ii. 10). Seti devot- ed special attention to the Delta and to Tanis, the ancient