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EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Part I.
OUTLINE OF EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY.
ACCORDING TO MANETHO AND THE MONUMENTS.
OLD KINGDOM OF PYRAMID BUILDERS.
| Years. | B.C. | ||||||
| 1st | dynasty, | Thinite | 252 | Accession of Menes, 1st king | 3906 | ||
| 2d | " | " | 302 | ||||
| 3d | " | Memphite | 214 | Ten dynasties of kings, reigning sometimes contemporaneously in Upper and in Lower Egypt; at other times both divisions were united under one king.
The Total duration of their reigns, as nearly as can be estimated, was 1335 years. | |||
| 4th | " | " | 284 | ||||
| 5th | " | Elephantine | 248 | ||||
| 6th | " | Memphite | 203 | ||||
| 7th | " | " | 70 days? | ||||
| 8th | " | " | 146 | ||||
| 9th | " | Heracleapolite | 100? | ||||
| 10th | " | " | 185 | ||||
| FIRST THEBAN KINGDOM. | |||||||
| 11th | " | Thebans | 43 | Commenced | 2571 | ||
| 12th | " | " | 246 | over Upper, 188 over Lower Egypt. | |||
| SHEPHERD INVASION. | |||||||
| 13th | " | Diospolites | 453 | Five dynasties of Shepherd or native kings reigning or existing contemporaneously in four series in different parts of Egypt during 511 years. | |||
| 14th | " | Xoïte | 484 | ||||
| 15th | " | Shepherds | 284 | ||||
| 16th | " | Hellenes | 518 | ||||
| 17th | " | Shepherds | 151 | ||||
| 435 | |||||||
| GREAT THEBAN KINGDOM. | |||||||
| 18th | " | Theban | 393 | Over all Egypt | 1819 | ||
| 19th | " | " | 194 | 1436 | |||
| Exode of Jews, 1312. | |||||||
| 20th | " | " | 135 | 1242 | |||
| 21st | " | Tanite | 130 | 1107 | |||
| 22d | " | Bubastite | 120 | 977 | |||
| Temple of Jerusalem plundered, 972. | |||||||
| 23d | " | Tanite | 89 | 857 | |||
| 24th | " | Saïte | 44 | 768 | |||
| 25th | " | Ethiopian | 44 | 724 | |||
| 26th | " | Saïte | 155 | 680 | |||
| Persian Invasion under Cambyses | 526[1] | ||||||
- ↑ The above scheme of Egyptian Chronology was published by me in the "True Principles of Beauty in Art," in 1849; and the data on which it was based were detailed in the Appendix to that work. As there seems to be nothing in the subsequent researches or discoveries which at all invalidates the reasoning on which the table was founded, it is here reproduced in an abridged form as originally set forth.
