. Ancient history of the East;. as was long supposed, but fromthe north, via the Isthmus of Suez. They belong to therace personified in Genesis under the name of Ham, andcalled by the Arabs the Red from the color of their com-plexion. This race appears to have formed, under the nameof Cushites, the basis of the population all along the shoreof the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Cushites founded small states, which doubtlessexisted for long centuries before a powerful chief, Menes,subdued the whole valley from the sea to the cataracts ofSyene, and founded, at least five t
. Ancient history of the East;. as was long supposed, but fromthe north, via the Isthmus of Suez. They belong to therace personified in Genesis under the name of Ham, andcalled by the Arabs the Red from the color of their com-plexion. This race appears to have formed, under the nameof Cushites, the basis of the population all along the shoreof the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Cushites founded small states, which doubtlessexisted for long centuries before a powerful chief, Menes,subdued the whole valley from the sea to the cataracts ofSyene, and founded, at least five thousand years before ourera, the first royal race. To account for this unknownperiod and for the revolution in which it ended, it was saidthat at first the gods had reigned, then the demi-gods, thatis, the priests, their representatives, and that the latter hadbeen forced to yield their power to a warrior chieftain. First Dynasties (5000 years ). — Little is known ofthe first three dynasties, whose sway, eight centuries in. t^lirlgkl, KS. I.) T. V. C 5000-2200.] EGYPT 25 duration, reached the peninsula of Sinai, where on a rockthe name of one of their princes has been found, whoworked the copper mines in the peninsula. Under thefourth we behold all the marvels of a civilization then un-paralleled. Art then reached such development as themost brilliant periods will hardly surpass. What space oftime must have elapsed between the day when the first manwas cast naked upon the earth with the instincts of a wildanimal, and that day six thousand years ago, which sawthe admirable statue of Chephren come forth from thehands of an Egyptian Phidias, the pyramids of Gizeh rise,and a great monarchical society formed with a strongpolitical and religious organization? The paintings or theinscriptions of temples and tombs recall to us its industry,its commerce, its agriculture, and all the bloom of its vigor-ous youth. So early did Egypt enjoy all the art and sciencewhich it ever pos
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