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Excerpt from Egypt Under Rameses the Great, Vol. 5 The period of Egyptian History treated of in the present volume begins with the reign of Kameses I., the first king of the XlXth Dynasty, and ends with that of Raineses XII., the last king of the XXtk Dynasty, and the narrative describes the principal events which took place in Egypt and the various portions of her Nubian and Asiatic Empire from about B.C. 1400 to B.C. 1130. This period is one of great interest, for in it are included the reigns of Seti I., and Raineses II., and Rameses III., and Menephthah, under which Egypt attained to a very high state of prosperity, and became the mistress of the trade of the Red Sea and of the Mediterranean Sea. The country was not given up to the making of military expeditions and raids, as under the great kings of the XVIIItk Dynasty, but it has been truly said that the general wealth of the country was greater during the reigu of Rameses III. than during that of Tliothmes III., although the hold of Egypt upon her Syrian, Libyan, and Nubian possessions was less strong and less secure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.