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D LIT , , . ‘ , K EE PE R O F T H E E GYPT IAN A ND A SSYRIA N A NT IQ UI 'FIES IN T HE BRIT ISH M US E UM 3 D 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ) 0 3 3 0 3 3 3 3 ) 3 3 ) 3 3 3 o 0 0 o 0 3 D a ," 3 s ) 3 3 ‘3 o 3 3 3 3 3 ) D 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ) ILLUS ZFRAuT ED o 3 o o 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 ) 0 9‘ O 0 o -3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 NEW "O RK HE NRY F RO WDE O X F O R D U N I V E R S IT Y P R E S S A MERICAN BRANCH P R E F A C E THE period of Egyptian History treated in the present volume has been continued from the end of the reign ‘ Thothmes II XVIIIth of . to the end of the rule of the i m 1550 14 00 s . e Dyna ty , . , fro about to This period, o one though c mparatively short , is of extreme interest, for in it the Egyptians succeeded in establishing their empire in Palestine and Syria , and extended their rule as Ni as far eastwards the city of , which cannot have In been very far from the river Euphrates . this Thothmes period , moreover, are included the reigns of III A - ete III a . and men h p . , whose energy and bility raised Egypt to an exalted position among the civilized n natio s of the world , and made her feared by Nubians , Libyans , and the Semitic tribes of the Eastern Desert, i A Thothmes III and of Sina , and of Western sia . consolidated the Egyptian power in Nubia and Syria , ” - h and Amen etep III . administered the vast empire which his great ancestor had won by his sword . On e A -hete III the d ath of men p . Egypt may be said to have extended from the Atbara river in the Eastern fidan A S to the city of leppo in Northern Syria . Hand in hand with the growth of power went increase in the d wealth of Egypt, and the buil ings which the greatest XVIIIth kings of the Dynasty set up in their capital, e h W Th bes , testify to the lavis ness ith which they spent A - Ra the money that had been given to them by men , the king of the gods . The shrines of local gods which P RE FAC E had fallen into ruin were re stored with a generous hand, and on a scale never before equalled and never s s s n urpa sed . The endowment set apart for the mai tenance of the sanctuary and prie sthood of Amen - Ra w u and ere on a hitherto nknown scale , the power which the p rie sts enJ oyed in consequence was little ri P infe or to that of the reigning family . ainters , s sculptor , architects , and engineers found abundant employment l n the capital in connection with the s s s s and temple of the god , and the granite obeli k , ss - s r s colo al statues , and fine bas relief prove thei kill In s d XVIIIth and ability . hort , the perio of the D s n A e yna ty included the Golde g of Egypt , and “ though the kings of the succeeding dynastie s were u XVIIIth s more boastf l than those of the Dyna ty , m s their works and erit were far inferior to theirs . s s n h the s The mo t intere ti g , t ough certainly not mo t m t s XVIIIth was i por ant of the king of the Dynasty, -h t IV A -hete III A e e . men p , the son of men p . by the M t ni ss s i an an prince Thi . Thi remarkable woman as as appears to have been intelligent she was beautiful , and the influence which she exerted on the mi nd of her ‘ son duri ng his boyhood produced some very un d s s d expecte re ult . He seems to have imbibe a strong hatred of the religion and worship which were in culcated by the powerful priesthood of Amen- Ra at ’ s Thebes , but whether this was the result of his mother c i s t tea hing or of his own wish unknown .