The next entries in Manetho as reported by Africanus are brief enough and interesting enough to be quoted in extenso: TWENTY-FOURTH DYNASTY. Bochchoris of Sais, for 6 (44) years: in his time…
Category: King of Egypt
Lower Paleolithic: c. 2 Mil. – 100,000 BC
As hard as may be to believe, there was an Egypt before the Pharaohs. Over a century ago, Charles Darwin, without any real evidence to back up his theory, set forth the…
Sixth Dynasty
After Wenis the Turin Canon inserted a total of all the years from the accession of Menes down to that reign. The number is unfortunately lost, but the entry serves a useful…
Twenty-seventh Dynasty
Difficulties connected with the succession kept Cambyses fully occupied for the next three years, but the murder of his brother Smerdis left his hands free to proceed with the undertaking bequeathed to…
The Discovery of the Tomb of the Physician at Saqq
The Tomb of Qar in Saqqara is another tomb that we recently discovered. It is located to the south of the Step Pyramid. The tomb has a vaulted ceiling. The inside wall…
Twelfth Dynasty
At the close of Menthotpe I’s glorious reign nothing seemed to suggest that the power of his family was nearing its end. Yet so it was. The Turin Canon concedes to S’ankhkare’…
Second Dynasty
Manetho’s SECOND DYNASTY of nine kings from Thinis presents even more intractable problems than its predecessor. Four of the Manethonian names are recognizable, despite grave distortion, in the Ramesside king-lists, though it…
Twenty-third Dynasty
What little of the kind we hear of is derived from the Old Testament, as we shall soon see. Manetho’s TWENTY-THIRD DYNASTY consists of only four kings, the third (Psammus) being unidentifiable…