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Excerpt from Modern Egypt and Thebes, Vol. 2 of 2: Being a Description of Egypt, Including the Information Required for Travellers in That Country In the time of the Pharaohs, Egypt consisted of two great regions, the upper and lower country, both of equal con sequence; from which the kings derived the title lord of the two regions. Each of these had its peculiar crown, both which, at his coronation, the monarch put on at the same time, showing the equal rank of the two states, while they seem to argue the existence of two distinct kingdoms at an early period. The precedence, too, always given to the upper crown, and to the expression upper and lower country, in the hieroglyphic legends, may also suggest the prior antiquity of the Thebaid as a kingdom, a name by which the upper country is frequently mentioned by Greek and Roman writers. 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.