“Another great change which differentiates the Middle Kingdom (XIth-XIIIth Dynasties) from the Old Kingdom was caused by Egypt's coming into contact with other outside nations at this period.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It was not till the time of the XVIIIth Dynasty, indeed, that the Egyptians ceased to portray their kings as they really were, and… — Leonard William King Copy Share
“This is a very interesting theory, which, when carried out to its logical conclusion, would connect the Hyksos and Hittites racially with the pre-Hellenic… — Leonard William King Copy Share
“It is from the name of Seker that the modern Sak-kâra takes its title.” — Leonard William King Copy Share
