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-country along the left bank of the Canopic Branch of the Nile, from 

 Memphis, as far as Carbana (Canopus). 



Page 327. — No less important was the despatch of a mission by land 

 to the copper mines of Aketa ; ' ' and the metal shining like gold, and 

 in the form of bricks, was brought from the smelting-houses in those 

 parts." 



Ramses III. must have enjoyed enormous ivealth, which he lavished 

 on the temples of Amon, Ptah, and Ra, of Heliopolis. "When he came 

 to the thi'one, things looked bad for Egypt. " The hostile Asiatics 

 and Tuhennu robbers (the Lybian Marmaridae) showed themselves 

 only to injure the state of Egypt." 



Page 329. — In the 5th year of his reign, the enemies prepared a 

 fresh attack from the west {circ. B.C. 1195). "The people of the 

 Tamashu assembled together in one place ; the tribe of the Maxyes 

 prepared themselves for a raid out of their own country." (The 

 Maxyes were a Lybian tribe, and a branch of the nomad Ausenses.) 

 Herodotus places them on the left bank (the western) of the river 

 Triton ; reclaimed from nomad life, they were tillers of the earth, 

 and accustomed to live in houses. They still, however, retained some 

 relics of their former customs, as " they suffer the hair on the right 

 side of their head to grow, but shave the left ; they painted their 

 bodies with red lead " ; remains of this custom of wearing the hair are 

 still preserved among the " Tuaregs," their modern descendants. — 

 (Smith's "Diet, of An. Geo.," vol. ii., p. 299). The defeat of the 

 enemy was tremendous. Three years after this event, a warlike move- 

 ment broke out in the north, caused hy the migration of the Carian and 

 Colchian tribes. " They (the invaders) came up, leaping from their 

 coasts and islands, and spread themselves all at once over the lands." 



In the 11th year of Rhampsinitus, a new struggle threatened the 

 safety of the country from the west. 



Summing up those citations from the Egyptian inscriptions and 

 history, as regards dates, we find : — 



Circ. B.C. 1366. Descent of the maritime nations of the Mediter- 

 ranean into Egypt, '•''from the extremest end of the sea, to the land of the 

 Keta " — defeated by Ramses II. 



Circ. B.C. 1330. Great inctu'sion of the maritime nations of the 

 Mediterranean into the Delta, in alliance with the Lybians, under 

 Meneptah. " &ome causes, perhaps famines, had already disposed them 

 to move from Asia Minor and the Greek Islands.''^ 



Circ. B.C. 1295 (under Meneptah II.). Eui'ther invasion of the 

 Delta by the maritime nations of the Mediterranean. Battle of 



