href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17330@[email protected]#linkCimage-0008" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">234.jpg the Apotheosis of Homer

235.jpg Hero's Rotating Steam Engine

237.jpg Coin of Ptolemy V.

241.jpg Temple of Hathor at Philae

242b.jpg Color Plate

249.jpg Obelisk at Heliopolis

254.jpg Nilometer at Rhodha

256b.jpg Suk El Saleh, Cairo

260.jpg Temple of Kom Ombo.

268.jpg Temple Portico at Contra-latopoli

274.jpg Coin of Cleopatra and Alexander

275.jpg Coin of Cleopatra and Alexander, With Eagles

276.jpg the Memnonium at Thebes

280.jpg Coin of Ptolemy Lathyrus and Selene.

287.jpg Horus on the Crocodiles. Bulak Museum.

289.jpg Religious Procession on the Nile

291.jpg Egyptian Funeral Ceremonies

293.jpg Mummy, Mummy-cases, and Casket

295.jpg Development of Egyptian Caricature

297.jpg the Mines of Maghara

309.jpg Vocal Statue of Memnon

312.jpg the Sphinx

314.jpg

314b.jpg Bearers of Evil Tidings

315.jpg Page Image

317.jpg Pillar of Pompey at Alexandria

333.jpg Ruins of Hermonthis

338.jpg Egyptian Picture of Cleopatra

346.jpg Coin of Cleopatra and Anthony

347.jpg Later Coin of Cleopatra and Antony.

351.jpg Greek Picture of Cleopatra

357.jpg Grand Column at Karnak

362.jpg Cleopatra's Needle.

364.jpg Graeco-egyptian Column

PREFACE

Professor Maspero closes his History of Egypt with the conquest of Alexander the Great. There is a sense of dramatic fitness in this selection, for, with the coming of the Macedonians, the sceptre of authority passed for ever out of the hand of the Egyptian. For several centuries the power of the race had been declining, and foreign nations had contended for the vast treasure-house of Egypt. Alexander found the Persians virtually rulers of the land. The ancient people whose fame has come down to us through centuries untarnished had been forced to bow beneath the yoke of foreign masters, and nations of alien blood were henceforth to dominate its history.

The first Ptolemy founded a Macedonian or Greek dynasty that maintained supremacy in Egypt until the year 30 B.C. His successors were his lineal descendants, and to the very last they prided themselves on their Greek origin; but the government which they established