“At any rate, when the war of liberation, which was directed by the princes of Thebes, was finally brought to a successful conclusion and the Arabs were expelled, we find the Egyptians a much changed nation. They had adopted for… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The great pyramid-builders of the IVth Dynasty seem to have been the last true Memphites.” — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The idea was that in Palaeolithic days, contemporary with the Glacial Age of Northern Europe and America, the climate of Egypt was entirely different… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“As far as we can tell, then, Aha and Narmer were the first conquerors of the North, the unifiers of the kingdom, and the… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The country to the north of Babylonia was known as Assyria at the time of the kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon, and… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“For the First Dynasty of Babylon, to which the famous Hammurabi belonged, was very probably of Arab origin, to judge by the forms of… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“After the reconsolidation of the Egyptian people, with perhaps an autocratic class of Semitic origin and a populace of indigenous Nilotic race, we have… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“For the culture of the Semites was Sumerian, the Semitic races owing their civilization to the Sumerians. That is as much as to say… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The Kheta, or Hittites, were certainly not Semites, yet the Hyksos names are definitely Semitic. In fact it is most probable that the Hyksos,… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“Certain elements of the early dynastic civilization, which do not appear in that of the earlier pre-dynastic period, resemble well-known elements of the civilization… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“The mere fact of so large and important an obelisk, inscribed with a Semitic text by an early Babylonian king, being found at Susa… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“In fact, this communication seems to go so far back in time that we are gradually being led to perceive the possibility that the… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“But at the end of the XIIIth Dynasty the great invasion of the Hyksos probably occurred, and all Northern Egypt fell under the Arab… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
