. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Taia.{Egyptian.) Amunoph IV. Bexen-Aten.^(Anomalous features.) At the close of the X Vlllth dynasty, and just before the inaugura-tion of the XlXth, intervenes a period of anarchy, technically knownto Egyptologists as the Disk Heresy; wherein the above extraor-dinary personage (Fig. 55) plays a not less extraordinary part. Heturned the orthodox priests out of the sanctuaries — abolished thepolyth
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Taia.{Egyptian.) Amunoph IV. Bexen-Aten.^(Anomalous features.) At the close of the X Vlllth dynasty, and just before the inaugura-tion of the XlXth, intervenes a period of anarchy, technically knownto Egyptologists as the Disk Heresy; wherein the above extraor-dinary personage (Fig. 55) plays a not less extraordinary part. Heturned the orthodox priests out of the sanctuaries — abolished thepolytheistic orisons to Egypts ancient gods — and introduced duringhis reign (followed for a short time by successors), the worship of thesuns disk. These events took place in Upper Egypt, during thefifteenth century b. c. ; or some time before the birth of Moses, ac-cording to the emended Biblical chronology of Lepsius. Fio. anarchical Hoitus.(A lineal descendant from Thotmes III., whose Semitic ancestors he reproduces.) And the XVHIth Dynasty ends in usurpations. 148 THE CAUCASIAN TYPES SIXth Dynasty—New Family—Ramesides— about b. c. 1525. Fig. 57. Fig. 58.
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