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Topic: Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Egypt
		In ancient Egypt the tuft of papyrus was the coat of arms or symbol of the Northern Kingdom.
		This is in particular the case for the Seventh and Eighth dynasties (Memphites), the Ninth and Tenth (Heracleopolites), the Eleventh (Theban -- contemporary with the Tenth), the Thirteenth (Theban) and the Fourteenth (Xoite -- in part simultaneous), the Fifteenth, and the Sixteenth (Hyksos), and the Seventeenth Dynasty (Theban -- partly contemporary with the Sixteenth.
		From Khafre, the second king of the fourth dynasty, to the end of the sixth dynasty, the name Re is a part of the name of almost every one of those kings, and the monuments show that during that period numerous temples were erected to the chief of the Heliopolitan Ennead in the neighbouring nomes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05329b.htm (18093 words)

	Egyptian Dynasties - Crystalinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Egypt lies in northeast Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea.
		Around 3000 BC, Egypt emerged from the twilight of prehistory as one country, united under the single rule of a divine king.
		She committed suicide on August 12, 30 BC at the age of 39 thus ending the are of the dynasties.
	www.crystalinks.com /egyptdynasties.html (447 words)

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		Dynasty V ended at 1486 with the death of the magician-king (Unis is called Jannes in II Timothy 3:8.) In Dynasty VI king Merenre II also dies in 1486, after only one year's reign.
		The lengths of reigns of Dynasty XII are firmly established, though they have come down in several forms due to the practice of associating successors on the throne prior to death of predecessor, or of dating from designation as heir to the throne.
		That is Dynasty XIV of Xois in the Delta.
	cgca.net /coglinks/wcglit/hh_cmpndm1.txt (19370 words)

	Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Early Egypt was a theocracy where the rulers, or pharaohs, had absolute power and were thought to be gods.
		The last ruler of the 2nd Dynasty, Khasekhemwy, was responsible for the construction of the last royal tomb of this period there.
		Since ancient Egypt was an agricultural society, its densest population was on the floodplains.
	www.arab-world-information.com /ancient_egypt.htm (8845 words)

	Edfu - The Ralph Ellis Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Royal dynasties to this day have the same fascination for their family history, for the family's entire existence depends solely on proving their legitimacy.
		Egypt had just been through a bitter and bloody civil war with these peoples, a war between southern and northern Egypt which resulted in the Exodus of the Hyksos peoples and the destruction of much of the northern delta lands.
		See the incredible tale of a ruling dynasty that has managed to cling to the greasy pole of history, despite the millennia of misunderstandings and persecutions, a family that is not even recognised by the faithful that worship them to this day.
	freespace.virgin.net /kena.edfu/abraham.html (3466 words)

	Ancient Nubia -- Map and History - 25th Dynasty Egypt
		The Osirian Temple of Taharqa at Karnak in Egypt
		This is the end of the 25th Dynasty Egypt; withdrew to Nubia; moved their administrative center further south, from Napata to Meroë.
		By 653 BC, Nubian 25th Dynasty dominance of Egypt was at an end, and also the old dynastic culture that the Nubians tried to restore.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/mapofnubia.html (3015 words)

	UNESCO Courier: Egypt and the Mediterranean world - ancient Egypt
		HISTORIC Egypt emerged as a unified country, with its own system of writing, towards the end of the fourth millennium BC, It rapidly became the seat of a brilliant civilization in which flourished philosophy and literature, architecture and art, science and medicine, administration and social organization.
		Although the Mediterranean was no obstacle between Egypt and the Aegean, contacts between Egyptian and Aegean traders and emissaries were made first of all in the Phoenician coastal ports, Byblos in particular.
		Egypt became part of the Hellenistic world encompassing the eastern basin of the Mediterranean.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1988_Sept/ai_6841328 (1362 words)

	Portrait-Painting in Ancient Egypt
		In the course of that century Egypt is again and again attacked, not only by the Greeks of Asia Minor and the Ægean, but by the coast-folk and islanders of the Tyrrhene Sea.
		By revealing the astonishing fact that Egypt contained settlements of early Greek and Italian tribes at a date long anterior to the earliest date at which those people had any history or monuments of their own, they show in what school of art those nations studied.
		Egypt had been flooded with Greeks during the two hundred and seventy-four years of Macedonian rule, and the descendants of these friendly invaders long continued to form a large proportion of the population.
	www.digital.library.upenn.edu /women/edwards/pharaohs/pharaohs-3.html (10258 words)

	0B3300_1300BC
		The fertile Nile Valley and prevailing environmental conditions led to the formation of villages along the river—Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north.
		1663 In Egypt Shesi ruled at the beginning of the 15th Dynasty and was succeeded by Yakubher, Khyan, Apepi I, Apepi II, Anather in the 16th Dynasty, Yakobaam, Sobekemsaf II in the 17th Dynasty, and Intef VII.
		1525 In Egypt Queen Hatshepsut, one of the XVIII Dynasty rulers, was born.
	www.shelbyjackman.com /school/timeline/0B3300_1300BC.HTML (8497 words)

	Hebrew Peoples in Egypt
		The Hyksos invasion was roughly contemporaneous with a period of global cooling, which may have been caused by a massive volcanic explosion spewing large amounts of dust into the upper atmosphere.
		Knight and Lomas (The Hiram Key) suggest that Abraham, the Hebrew patriarch, may have been a Hyksos, a 'desert prince' who entered Egypt around 1780, B.C.E. This date can be calculated by backtracking from the estimated date of his great grandson Joseph's investiture as vizier in 1570.
		Inscriptions from the sixteenth and fifteenth centuries BC have been found giving details of these Habiru slaves and their forced labor.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/hapiru.html (2342 words)

	Egypt: History - Dynasty XVIII (Eighteenth Dynasty)
		They are not to be confused with two others which she placed between the Fourth and Fifth Pylons in her sixteenth year and of which one, only a little short of 100 feet in height, is still standing.
		to overthrow that vile enemy and to extend the boundaries of Egypt in accordance with the command of his father Amen-Re'.
		Ten days later found him at what subsequently became the Philistine city of Gaza, which he seized; this chanced to be on the anniversary of his accession, and the first day of his twenty-third year.
	www.touregypt.net /hdyn18b.htm (4336 words)

	Sesostris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The kings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth dynasties were the greatest conquerors that Egypt ever produced, and their records are clear on this point.
		Khian, the powerful but poorly-documented Hyksos king of the Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt, whose prenomen might be pronounced Sweserenre, is perhaps a possible prototype, for objects inscribed with his name have been found from Baghdad to Knossos.
		Sesostris is evidently a mythical figure created to satisfy the pride of the Egyptians in their ancient achievements, after they had come into contact with the great conquerors of Assyria and Persia.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sesostris.htm (397 words)

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		The focus is on Drake's circumnavigation of the world in the sixteenth century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com (2385 words)

	PERIOD AND EVENT LINE A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1785 Thirteenth Dynasty in Egypt - decline in territory
		Reestablishes the Cult of Amon and is well rewarded by its Priests when he dies early at the age of 18.
		By the Archaic period, the large nude statues of males called kouroi and draped females called Korai were sculpted as dedications for sanctuaries and markers for graves.
	webpub.alleg.edu /employee/j/jherrman/lok-timeline.html (3380 words)

	Egyptian pharaohs
		The names of the pharaohs are known from Egyptian texts and the Aegyptiaca of Manetho, an Egyptian priest who lived in the first half of the third century BCE.
		He divides the Egyptian history in thirty dynasties; sometimes he is wrong, but it is common to follow his division.
		For example, the Horus-name of Alexander the Great was 'protector of Egypt' and his fifth name was 'beloved by Amun, chosen by Ra'.
	www.livius.org /pha-phd/pharaoh/pharaoh.htm (358 words)

	National Gallery of Art \| The Quest for Immortality
		Theban early rulers contemporary with the Fifteenth Dynasty
		Chronology of Ancient Egypt adapted from Ian Shaw, ed., The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 480-83.
		The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Ave.
	www.nga.gov /press/2002/exhibitions/egypt/chrono.htm (402 words)

	dig: Quiz 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pick one answer from the menu under each question about archaeology.
		In Ancient Egypt, the practice of mummification was performed only on:
		The Sixteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, also known as the Hyksos, were a group of foreign rulers hailing from:
	www.digonsite.com /quiz/quiz20.html (63 words)

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