Excerpt from Records of the Past, Vol. 8: Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments
The Eighth Volume of the "Records of the Past" has been continued on the same principle as its predecessors. A prominence has naturally been given to historical texts, as they are the most important which have been handed down by ancient Egypt. No branch, however, of Egyptian researches has been more minutely explored, and the great historical texts arc almost exhausted. In the present volume will be found, a translation of the Sallier Papyrus relating to the Hykshos, the end of the Papyrus comprising the political condition of Egypt in the reign of Rameses III.; the Case of Conspiracy against the life of the same monarch ; the texts relating to the Gold Mines in the reigns of Seti I. and Rameses II.; and the decree of Canopus, of the reign of Ptolemy Euergetcs II., an inscription throwing great light upon the condition of the Egyptian priesthood under the rule of the Greeks in Egypt.
The subject of mythology is, however, by no means exhausted, and the important texts relating to it arc not only beginning to attract attention, but arc felt to be necessary for the due comprehension of the religious ideas of the Egyptians. A diversity of opinion, it must be stated, exists amongst scholars as to the value of later inscriptions of the Ptolemaic and Roman period.
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