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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt:... JflO, p. 5; Chabas, Les Ramses sont-ils de la race des Pasteurs 1 Etudes sur la Stele de Van 400, in the Zeitschrift, 1865, pp. 29-38). Everything goes to prove that the Ramses family was, and considered itself to be, of Egyptian origin. Brugsch (_Gesch. Mgyptens, p. 456) and Ed. Meyer Gesch. JEgyptens, p. 274) were inclined to see in Ramses I. a younger brother of Harmhabi. This hypothesis has nothing either for or against it up to the present (wiedemann,Xgyptisdte Gesch., p. 413). RAMSES I." perhaps the one who governed Thebes under KMniatonu,1 or another, who began but never finished his tomb in the hillside above Tel el-Amama, in the burying-place of the worshippers of the Disk. He had held important offices under Harmhabi,2 and had obtained in marriage for his son Seti the hand of Tuia, who, of all the royal family, possessed the strongest rights to the crown.8 Ramses reigned only six or seven years, and associated Seti with himself in the government from his second year.4 He undertook a short military expedition into Ethiopia, and perhaps a raid into Syria; and wo find remains of his monuments in Nubia, at Bohani near Wady Haifa, and at Thebes, in the temple of Amon.5 He displayed little activity, his advanced age preventing him from entering on any serious undertaking: but his accession nevertheless marks an important date in the history of Egypt. Although Harmhabi was distantly connected with the line of the Ahmessides, it is difficult at the present day to know what position to assign him in the Pharaonic lists: while some regard him as the last of the XVIII"1 dynasty, others prefer to place him at the head of the XIXth. No such hesitation, however, exists with regard to Ramses I., who was undoubtedly the founder of a new family. The old...