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Excerpt from Egypt of the Past Dynasties. These are, indeed, such very ancient memories (some of them antecedent to the Great Pyramids) that we need not concern ourselves very particularly with figures and dates about which Egyptologists themselves are not entirely agreed. The great river of Egypt, the Nile, which first brought down the soil of Central Africa, and in course of time filled up that arm of the sea which as dry land we now call Egypt, and which by continuous accumulation drove the sea back into the Mediterranean Basin, while it has ever been the creative and fertilizing power of Egypt, has like wise been the insatiable devourer of its history. The cities of the Delta, their monuments and their records, have, for the most part, been swallowed up and destroyed. How much knowledge may have been lost to modern times Q by the annual inundation of the Nile it is now too late to calculate. Those temples founded on the rock and on the higher grounds have alone survived; and above all, the tombs excavated and built in the limestone range beyond the reach of the inundation and on those broad mountain ledges which would seem to have been the complement, if not, indeed, the cause of the pyramids. 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.