192 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Ionizer or king of Egypt after the Noachian 

 flood, must be reckoned about B.C. 5000, 

 but this speculative idea arose from a 

 complete misunderstanding of the national 

 historian Manetho. Those who knew 

 anything of Egyptology, and relied upon 

 the truth of Scripture, found ample proof 

 from the monuments and the papyri, that 

 in place of Manetho giving 1500 years, 

 as his followers say that he does, for the 

 duration of the first six dynasties, the real 

 period was not more than 355 years. To 

 make a comparison with British history. 

 We know from the incoming of the Saxons 

 to the days of Alfred, the first sole 

 monarch of England, embraces a period of 

 about four centuries ; but if our historians 

 had given each of the dynasties of the 

 Heptarchy a separate and continuous 

 reckoning for the duration of their re- 

 spective years, that period would have 

 been prolonged to over 2000 years ! 

 Just so have many of your Egyptian 

 chronologers mistaken or purposely 

 manipulated the testimony of Manetho. 



