History of Egypt (japanese Classics)
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"History of Egypt" records the kings of Egypt from ancient times to the eve of Alexander's conquest. It is very influential in modern academic circles and is Manetho's most important work. The full text has been lost for a long time, no manuscripts have been handed down, and there are only a few relevant papyrus documents. It has not even left traces in the mainstream culture of the Greco-Roman world. Today, only some fragments are mainly preserved in the excerpts of Josephus's "Against Apion" and the "Abstracts" of several Christian chroniclers on the names of ancient Egyptian kings, reign times and some deeds. Judging from the current fragments, "History of Egypt" is mainly organized in time, describing the dynastic changes and throne succession in ancient Egypt from ancient times to the eve of Alexander's conquest. According to estimates by modern scholars, Manetho's complete book covers about 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history and more than 400 Egyptian kings. There are 114 kings' names left today, 84 of which can be compared with the kings' names discovered and determined by modern Egyptology. Therefore, "History of Egypt" has been regarded as an authoritative reference material since the French scholar Champollion deciphered the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and it still occupies an important position in Egyptology research to this day.
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