Tales of Ancient Egypt Read online

  1308 DYNASTY XIX Rameses I.

  1309–1291 Seti I.

  1290–1224 Rasmeses the Great. The Princess and the Demon; The Book of Thoth; Se-Osiris and the Sealed Letter; The Land of the Dead.

  1224–1214 Merneptah.

  1214–1190 Seti II. The Story of the Two Brothers by Ana the Scribe.

  1184 The Fall of Troy (traditional date).

  1182–1151 DYNASTY XX Rameses III. The Greek Princess; The Treasure Thief.

  570–526 DYNASTY XXVI Amasis. The Girl with the Rose-red Slippers.

  c. 450 DYNASTY XXVII (Persian.) Herodotus visits Egypt.

  332–30 DYNASTY XXXI (The Ptolemies.) Alexander the Great and his successors ruled Egypt.

  30 Death of Cleopatra. Egypt then became a Roman aprovince.

  * Alternatively, you could try the British Museum’s online tour at www.britishmuseum.org

  * Thoth’s prophecy was fulfilled – for the Bennu bird of Heliopolis was called the Phoenix by the Greeks.

  * Ana was the author of The Tale of the Two Brothers.

  * The people of Egypt knew certainly of no land further away than the great island of Kefti which the Greeks called Crete.