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calculation, confirmed by the authority of Sir G. Airey, the 
Astronomer lloyal, is fixed to B.C. 2005. By which means we 
obtain something approaching a synchronism between the 
chronologers of Israel and Egypt. 
41. Believing that the commencement of the twelfth Dynasty 
may be approximately dated circa 2000 B.C., according to 
Egyptian chronology, and that this date agrees with the time 
of Abraham, according to the computation of Scripture chrono- 
logy, we have the harmony of the two further confirmed on this 
wise. An existing tomb at Eilethya, in Upper Egypt, belonging 
to one of the nobles of Pharaoh Amosis, the first sovereign of 
the eighteenth Dynasty, who bore the rank of “ Admiral of the 
Nile/’ contains a genealogical record of much importance.* 
The names from the time of the original founder of the family, 
who lived during the reign of the Pharaoh who immediately 
preceded the twelfth Dynasty, arc recorded in regular succession 
from father to son through eleven descents; a descent, according 
to Herodotus (II. 14, 2), may be computed as a period of about 
30 years; consequently, eleven descents, calculated from the time 
of the Pharaoh who immediately preceded the twelfth Dynasty, 
and which may be approximately dated at B.C. 2036, would 
represent a period of about 330 years, and bring us down to 
B.C. 1706, for the time of the conquest by the Shepherds by 
Pharaoh Amosis, and agrees with the date given by Brugsch 
and other Egyptologers, as I have before shown, for that event, 
as important in the annals of Egypt as the Norman Conquest is 
in the history of England. 
42. Between the time of Abraham and the expulsion of the 
Shepherds from Egypt, the viceroyalty of Joseph and the descent 
of Jacob with his sons into that country had taken place. One 
of the most noteworthy events connected with Joseph’s rule, as 
recorded in Scripture, was “ the seven years’ famine,” a matter 
of frequent occurrence in that land, where rain is so rarely 
known. Bunsen supposed he had discovered a synchronism 
between the chronologies of Israel and Egypt by pointing to a 
tomb-inscription belonging to the reign op the second king of 
the twelfth Dynasty, and therefore about the time of Abraham’s 
sojourn in that country. The inscription has been deciphered 
by Drs. Birch and Brugsch, a portion of which reads as follow's : 
“ When in the time of Sesertesen I . the great famine vrevailed 
* Osburn, Monum. Hist, of Egypt , ii. 160. A full account of this 
important monument is to be seen in the Yicomte de Rouge’s Mimoire sur 
V Inscription du Tombcau d’ A times, Chef des Nautoniers. 
