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Excerpt from Egyptian Chronology: An Attempt to Conciliate the Ancient Schemes and to Educe a Rational System The original intention of the present essay was to collect the numerical statements of the ancient authorities and to present them side by side so as to ascertain if possible the common source from which schemes differing by hundreds and perhaps thousands of years in their epochs for Menes had derived their origin. Should the quest prove futile the labour would not I thought be altogether in vain. For although the ancient schemes had been carefully gathered in expensive works (Lepsius' "Konigsbuch" for example) the reproductions of them in the histories in common use in England were either very incomplete or mingled with so much hypothetic guesswork as to be misleading as to what the ancients really meant: and moreover the present fashion of depreciating the ancients and throwing them aside as either grossly erroneous when genuine, or else as merely post-christian forgeries, did not appear the most likely method of getting at the truth. 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.