Chapter I: Introduction: 5

I.--THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS 9

II.--OBELISKS, AND THE OBELISK FAMILY 17

III.--THE LARGEST STONES OF THE WORLD 27

IV.--THE LONDON OBELISK 36

V.--HOW THE HIEROGLYPHIC LANGUAGE WAS RECOVERED 47

VI.--THE INTERPRETATION OF HIEROGLYPHICS 53

VII.--THOTHMES III. 61

VIII.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE
FIRST SIDE 69

IX.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE
SECOND SIDE 83

X.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE
THIRD SIDE 88

XI.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF THOTHMES III. TRANSLATION OF THE
FOURTH SIDE 92

XII.--RAMESES II. 95

XIII.--THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF RAMESES II. 101

XIV.--THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF THE MUMMIES OF THOTHMES III.
AND RAMESES II. AT DEIR-EL-BAHARI 111

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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THOTH 12

OBELISK OF USERTESEN I., STILL STANDING AT HELIOPOLIS 20

OBELISK OF THOTHMES III., AT CONSTANTINOPLE 23

COLOSSAL STATUE OF RAMESES II., AT MEMPHIS 29

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE, AT ALEXANDRIA 38

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE, ON THE THAMES EMBANKMENT 44

THE ROSETTA STONE 48

COLOSSAL HEAD OF THOTHMES III. 67

COLOSSAL HEAD OF RAMESES II. 98

[The illustrations of the obelisk at Constantinople, and of Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment, are taken, by the kind permission of Sir Erasmus Wilson, from his work, "The Egypt of the Past."]