Art Quote by 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 entirely different…

— 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, and the…

— 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 Babylon, and…

— 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 forms of…

— 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, we have…

— 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 to say…

— 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 the Hyksos,…

— 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 the civilization…

— 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 at Susa…

— 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 that the…

— 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 the Arab…

— Leonard William King