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ending with Sethos I., of the nineteenth dynasty. For the first six 
dynasties the list is consecutive. The rest of the series coincides 
with that of the Table in the British Museum. 
Mons. Mariette had previously discovered at Sakkarah another 
series of Royal names inscribed on the walls of a private Tomb. 
(See Archeol. Journal, Vol. XXIV., p. 5.) But what is 
perhaps of deeper interest to us is the discovery of the statue 
of Menephtah, the supposed Pharaoh of the Exodus. 
“Tt is generally admitted that the Exodus took place in his 
reign and that he was the Pharaoh addressed by Moses and 
Aaron, visited by God with plagues on account of the hardness 
of his heart, and finally drowned in the Red Sea, in pursuing the 
Hebrews after their departure from the Land of Bondage.” 
Lately a new theory has been started about the place from 
which the Hebrews commenced their journey at the Exodus, It 
is supposed to have been from Paramessu or Tanis, and that the 
Hebrews took the northern route, between the waters of the 
Lake Serbonis and the Mediterranean, where the sea waters had 
subsequently engulphed an army of Artaxerxes. This theory of 
the Exodus was put forth at the International Congress of 
Orientalists (17 Sept., 1874), and may be read in the “ Academy.” 
(26 Sep. same year p. 352.) “ The difficulties, however (observes 
Dr. Birch), of reconciling the Scriptural account as to the time 
passed in the transit, as well as that of allowing the philological 
coincidence of some of the Egyptian names, have caused this 
brilliant discovery of the supposed direction of the Exodus not to 
be universally admitted by those who have studied the antiquities 
of Egypt or Biblical geography.* 
* In pure Egyptian Archeology among the most recent matters of interest is 
the translation of the great Ebers Papyrus, a Treatise on Egyptian Medicine; 
also a large edition of the “‘ Ritual of the Dead,” (the management of which 
was at the Congress of Orientalists deputed to Dr. Birch, M. Chabas, Lepsius 
and Naville), has now been projected. 
