Some Sources of Human History
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It is agreed that it accords in its general extent of time with the centuries shown by the Annals and the Canon ; BYWAYS OF WRITTEN HISTORY 49 the corruptions of any such document full of details may afiect the exact correspondence, but not the whole scale of time. The classical records of the Ptolemies are mostly wrong in the length of every reign, by sheer corruption ; yet they are right as a whole.
The principal external check on this history lies in the rotation of the Egyptian months throu...gh the seasons. By the recorded rising of Sirius at a given month and day there is fixed the interval from the beginning of the XXVIth dynasty, known in Greek history, back to the beginning of the XVIIIth dynasty ; again, we have the interval from that back to the Xllth dynasty ; further back we have the interval from the Xllth dynasty back to the Ilird as shown by the months of quarrying recorded then, during the inundation.
These work out thus : Fixed.
Manetho.
Beginning of XXVIth 664 B.C.
664 B.C.
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It is agreed that it accords in its general extent of time with the centuries shown by the Annals and the Canon ; BYWAYS OF WRITTEN HISTORY 49 the corruptions of any such document full of details may afiect the exact correspondence, but not the whole scale of time. The classical records of the Ptolemies are mostly wrong in the length of every reign, by sheer corruption ; yet they are right as a whole.
The principal external check on this history lies in the rotation of the Egyptian months throu...gh the seasons. By the recorded rising of Sirius at a given month and day there is fixed the interval from the beginning of the XXVIth dynasty, known in Greek history, back to the beginning of the XVIIIth dynasty ; again, we have the interval from that back to the Xllth dynasty ; further back we have the interval from the Xllth dynasty back to the Ilird as shown by the months of quarrying recorded then, during the inundation.
These work out thus : Fixed.
Manetho.
Beginning of XXVIth 664 B.C.
664 B.C.
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