id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 38677 Duncker, Max The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) .txt text/plain 182871 9723 77 the priests of Egypt possessed lists of the kings in long series, and ruled over Egypt for 24,857 Egyptian years, according to the excerpt of papyrus, now in Turin, supposed to belong to the period 1500-1000 B.C. It begins with the rule of the gods; then follow the names of the kings, before Manetho wrote his Egyptian history, in the fifteenth century B.C. Menes was considered the first king of Egypt. kings, the gods had ruled over Egypt, to whom, therefore, a number of the inscriptions and records is called "the king of the gods," "the lord years to his son, to king Ramses, who loves him." Chunsu says: "We come of the priests, the gods ruled over Egypt, so in subsequent times the gods were said to have reigned in person over Egypt, before the kings, inscriptions of king Hammurabi (_i.e._ "the sun-god is great") ./cache/38677.txt ./txt/38677.txt