Leonard William King

“The great pyramid-builders of the IVth Dynasty seem to have been the last true Memphites.”

— Leonard William King

“The idea was that in Palaeolithic days, contemporary with the Glacial Age of Northern Europe and America, the climate of Egypt was…

— Leonard William King

“As far as we can tell, then, Aha and Narmer were the first conquerors of the North, the unifiers of the kingdom,…

— Leonard William King

“The country to the north of Babylonia was known as Assyria at the time of the kings of the First Dynasty of…

— Leonard William King

“For the First Dynasty of Babylon, to which the famous Hammurabi belonged, was very probably of Arab origin, to judge by the…

— Leonard William King

“After the reconsolidation of the Egyptian people, with perhaps an autocratic class of Semitic origin and a populace of indigenous Nilotic race,…

— Leonard William King

“For the culture of the Semites was Sumerian, the Semitic races owing their civilization to the Sumerians. That is as much as…

— Leonard William King

“The Kheta, or Hittites, were certainly not Semites, yet the Hyksos names are definitely Semitic. In fact it is most probable that…

— Leonard William King

“Certain elements of the early dynastic civilization, which do not appear in that of the earlier pre-dynastic period, resemble well-known elements of…

— Leonard William King

“The mere fact of so large and important an obelisk, inscribed with a Semitic text by an early Babylonian king, being found…

— Leonard William King

“In fact, this communication seems to go so far back in time that we are gradually being led to perceive the possibility…

— Leonard William King

“But at the end of the XIIIth Dynasty the great invasion of the Hyksos probably occurred, and all Northern Egypt fell under…

— Leonard William King

“It was not till the time of the XVIIIth Dynasty, indeed, that the Egyptians ceased to portray their kings as they really…

— Leonard William King

“This is a very interesting theory, which, when carried out to its logical conclusion, would connect the Hyksos and Hittites racially with…

— Leonard William King

“It is from the name of Seker that the modern Sak-kâra takes its title.”

— Leonard William King

“... conquering race was Semitic and brought to Egypt the Semitic elements in the Egyptian religion and a culture originally derived from…

— Leonard William King

“On their invasion of Babylonia the Semites fell absolutely under Sumerian influence, and, although they eventually conquered and absorbed the Sumerians, their…

— Leonard William King

“One of Hammurabi's letters proves that the king regulated the calendar, and it is legitimate to suppose that he sought the advice…

— Leonard William King

“while the examples of their art and the representations of their form and features, which were also afforded by the diggings at…

— Leonard William King

“The kings of the First Babylonian Dynasty wrote their votive inscriptions sometimes in Sumerian, sometimes in Semitic Babylonian; at other times they…

— Leonard William King

“The contrast between these splendid XIth Dynasty walls, with their great base-stones of sandstone, and the bad rough masonry of the XVIIIth…

— Leonard William King

“We do not know whether any regular communication between Egypt, under Semitic rule, and Babylonia was now established; but we do know…

— Leonard William King

“The supposition, however, that the "Smiths" were the Semitic conquerors, and that they won their way by the aid of their superior…

— Leonard William King

“Up to the time of Tukulti-Mnib no Assyrian king had actually seated himself upon the Babylonian throne. This feat was achieved by…

— Leonard William King

“At any rate, when the war of liberation, which was directed by the princes of Thebes, was finally brought to a successful…

— Leonard William King