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Excerpt from Memphis and Mycenae: An Examination of Egyptian Chronology and Its Application to the Early History of Greece The first of these propositions is discussed here in Chapter 5. I have stated the evidence on which it rests, and pointed out the weakness of such evidence. But obviously the My cenaean age should not be dated on the strength of evidence from Egyptian sources only. There is also a quantity of evidence from Greek sources; and that all seems to point another way. But this is not a matter that falls within the province of this book. The second proposition is discussed in Chapters I to 4. I have pointed out in Chapter 4 that dates cannot be fixed by arguments about the orientation of the temples, the structure of the calendar, or the periodic rising of the dog-star that marked a Sothic cycle and the advent of a phoenix. And in Chapters I to 3 I have endeavoured to fix the dates in the only way in which they can be fixed with certainty: namely, by determining the true succession of the kings and the lengths of all their reigns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.