PREFACE. THE publication of the accompanying work has occupied an unusually long period, owing to the typographical difficulties which were presented by the great number of small woodcuts required for its illustration. One consequence of this has been, the appearance in that interval of the American edition of Professor Hengstenberg's "Egypt and the Books of Moses," in which the subject of "the service of the tabernacle" is illustrated in a similar manner. It is hoped, however, that even upon this subject, some not unimportant additions will be found to the valuable collections of this justly celebrated biblical critic. The author has also taken advantage of this delay, carefully to reconsider the whole of the evidence upon that which he must account the most arduous portion of his work, which is, the hieroglyphic names of foreign nations. This circumstance has, at any rate, the effect of removing the results at which he has arrived still further from the category of hasty conclusions, and of enabling him to present them to the reader as the result of increased investigation. He has only further to say, that his labours will be abundantly rewarded, if they shall prove to have afforded any little illustration of the earlier portions. of the Word of God, or to have supplied one particle of evidence in attestation of its verity. CONTENTS. OBJECT OF THE WORK. SOURCES WHENCE THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF EGYPT IS TO BE DERIVED.-ERA OF MENES. OF THE PYRA- MIDS. OF OSORTASEN I.-OF AMOSIS.-THE EIGHTEENTH EGYPT FIRST COLONISED FROM THE NORTH EAST. THE "GREAT RITUAL"-THE SOUL AFTER DEATH.-THE THREE NILES.- FIRST EMIGRANTS FROM SHINAR.-EGYPT FIRST PEOPLED FROM THE EAST. THE RACES OF MEN. THE SHEMITES.-THE NEGROES AND THE HAMATHITES. THE FOUR RACES OF MAN- |