. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ^ 3 broad, w^ell irrigated by watersprings (one of which the Fountain of the Sun, was particularlycelebrated for the apparent coldness of its water), and remarkablyfertile in dates, pomegranates, and other fruits, which were largelyexported. The oasis derived, however, its chief celebrity from the. 280 EGYPT. Book 111 temple^ and oracle of Jupiter Ammon, wliich ranked with those ofDelphi and Dodona, and was visited by Alexander the Great. Theruins of the temple exist at U/nmeheda, and probably
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ^ 3 broad, w^ell irrigated by watersprings (one of which the Fountain of the Sun, was particularlycelebrated for the apparent coldness of its water), and remarkablyfertile in dates, pomegranates, and other fruits, which were largelyexported. The oasis derived, however, its chief celebrity from the. 280 EGYPT. Book 111 temple^ and oracle of Jupiter Ammon, wliich ranked with those ofDelphi and Dodona, and was visited by Alexander the Great. Theruins of the temple exist at U/nmeheda, and probably belong to thePersian era of Egyptian history. The walls were covered withhieroglyphics, and the colours still remain in some places. Thesoil of the oasis is strongly impregnated with salt. Histor;i of Lgypt —The history of Egypt may be divided iuto fourperiods, viz.—the Pharaonic, down to 525 : the Persian, from 525to 332 ; the Macedonian or Hellenic, from 332 to 30 ; and the Romanfrom B c. 30 to 640. 1. The first of these, the Pharaonic, may be divided into threeportions :—the old monarchy, extending from the foundation of thekingdom to the invasion of the Hyksos ; the middle, from the entranceto the expulsion of the Hyksos ; and the new, from the re establish-ment of the native monarchy Ijy Amosis to the Persian couc|uest. (1.) The Old MniirirchAj,—Memphis was the most
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