. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. e engraving which we give isfrom a photograph of the head of the statue which appearsin outline on page 258. It is said to be a masterpiece ofancient Egyptian art and is especially interesting becauseit presents to us the face of the Pharaoh of the exodus. Of his reign Rawlinson says: Inheriting from his fa-ther an empire which was everywhere at peace with itsneighbors, he might have expected to have had a tranquiland prosperous reign, and to have carried on the burst ofarchi
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. e engraving which we give isfrom a photograph of the head of the statue which appearsin outline on page 258. It is said to be a masterpiece ofancient Egyptian art and is especially interesting becauseit presents to us the face of the Pharaoh of the exodus. Of his reign Rawlinson says: Inheriting from his fa-ther an empire which was everywhere at peace with itsneighbors, he might have expected to have had a tranquiland prosperous reign, and to have carried on the burst ofarchitectural energy which had manifested itself under hisfather and grandfather. The power however which directshuman affairs, wholly disappointed these unclouded prospects of his early years gave place, aft- *Brugsch, History of Egypt. 256 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. er a brief interval, to storm and tempest of the most fear-ful kind; a terrible invasion carried fire and sword into theheart of his dominions; and he scarcely escaped this dan-ger when internal troubles broke out,—a subject race, high-. Menephthah, the Pharaoh of the Exodus. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 257 ly valued for the services which it was forced to render, in-sisted on quitting the land; a great loss was incurred in anattempt to compel it to remain; rebellion broke out in thesouth; and the reign, which had commenced under suchfair auspices, terminated in calamity and confusion. Me-nephthah was quite incompetent to deal with the difficultcircumstances in which he found himself placed; he hesi-tated, temporized, made concessions, retracted them—andfinally conducted Egypt to a catastrophe from which shedid not recover for a generation.* The search among the monuments of ancient Egypt re-veals many interesting facts concerning Menephthah II andhis troublous reign. The question as to whether the antiq-uities of Egypt do fully illustrate the life of the man whodefied the power of God even until hi
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