32 Some conjectures on the progress of [Jan. 



End of the 20th dynasty (lasted 185 years), 1113 



Beginning of ditto 1297 



End of the 19th dynasty (lasted 112 years), 1298 



Beginning of the reign of Menophthah, 1322 



Beginning of the 19th dynasty, 1409 



End of the 18th dynasty (lasted 229 years), 1410 



Beginning of the 18th dynasty, and of the new kingdom, .... 1638 



End of the Hyksos dynasties (lasted 866 years), 1639 



Beginning of them, 2567 



End of the ancient kingdom (last year of Amuntimaos XIII. 



3), which lasted 1076 years, 2568 



Earlier reign of Amuntimaos (62 years), 2630 



Beginning of the 13th dynasty (lasted 24 years — two first kings), 2654 



„ of the 12th ( „ 147 years— four kings), . . 2801 



„ ofthellth („ 16 years— one king),. 2817 



„ of the 8th ( „ 128 years — seven kings), . . 2945 



„ of the 7th ( „ 22 years — one king), 2967 



„ of the 6th ( „ 107 years— three kings), . . 3074 



„ of the 4th (Pyramids) ( „ 155 years — four kings, 3229 



„ of the 3rd ( „ 224 years— nine kings,) . . 3453 



„ of the 1st ( „ 190 years— five kings),. . . . 3643 



According to this the era of Menes commences 3643 years before 

 the birth of Christ." (^Egypten's Stelle, 3rd Book, II. E.) 



A glance at this table, in which the era of Menophthah is prominently 

 put forth by Bunsen on account of the discovery of the commencement 

 of the last Egyptian cycle of 1460 years (the cycle of Sirius) during 

 this reign, will show distinctly the periods during which the Egyptian 

 connection with an eastern race is traced, as yet, with no purely 

 historical outline : that the Indian Rama is necessarily the Egyptian 

 Bacchus, because Rama (the high) is a pure Egyptian word, the root 

 of the word pyramid; or that Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva or Hara 

 (Her-god) are Amun, Kneph, and Her or Horus ; or that, as the late 

 Mr. Csoma de Korosi held in opinions* which he would never publish 



* In a note to Dr. Campbell's Report of the last days of this most learned and 

 estimable man (As. Soc. Journal, No. 124, 1842), I mentioned his mysterious 

 method of conversing with me on such views as he seemed desirous of holding for 

 his own satisfaction only : he never inclined to such conversation save when I 



