KERINOS--MEMPHITE
LITERATURE AND ART--EXTENSION OF EGYPT TOWARDS THE SOUTH, AND THE
CONQUEST OP NUBIA BY THE PHARAOHS._

_Snofrui--The desert which separates Africa from Asia: its physical
configuration, its inhabitants, their incursions into Egypt, and their
relations with the Egyptians--The peninsula of Sinai: the turquoise
and copper mines, the mining works of the Pharaohs--The two tombs of
Snofrui: the pyramid and the mastabas of Medum, the statues of Bahotpu
and his wife Nofrit._

_Kheops, Ehephren, and Myherinos--The Great Pyramid: its construction
and internal arrangements--The pyramids of Khephren and Myherinos; the
rifling of them--Legend about the royal pyramid builders: the impiety
of Kheops and Khephren, the piety of Myherinos; the brick pyramid of
Asychis--The materials employed in building, and the quarries of Turah;
the plans, the worship of the royal "double;" the Arab legends about
the guardian genii of the pyramids._

_The kings of the fifth dynasty: Usirkaf, Sahuri, Kalciu, and the
romance about their advent--The relations of the Delta to the peoples
of the North: the shipping and maritime commerce of the Egyptians--Nubia
and its tribes: the Uauaiu and the Mazaiu, Puanit, the dwarfs and
the Danga--Egyptian literature: the Proverbs of Phtahhotpu--The arts:
architecture, statuary and its chief examples, bas-reliefs, painting,
industrial art._

_The development of Egyptian feudalism, and the advent of the sixth
dynasty: Ati, Imhotpa, Teti--Papi I. and his minister Uni: the affair
of Queen Amitsi; the wars against the Hiru-Shaitu and the country of
Tiba--Metesuphis I. and the second Papi: progress of the Egyptian power
in Nubia--the lords of Elephantine; Hirkhuf, Papinakhiti: the way
for conquest prepared by their explorations, the occupation of the
Oases--The pyramids of Saqqara: Metesuphis the Second--Nitokris and the
legend concerning her--Preponderance of the feudal lords, and fall of
the Memphite dynasty._

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CHAPTER II--THE MEMPHITE EMPIRE

_The royal pyramid builders: Kheops, Khephren, Mykerinos--Memphite
literature and art--Extension of Egypt towards the South, and the
conquest of Nubia by the Pharaohs._

At that time "the Majesty of King Huni died, and the Majesty of King
Snofrui arose to be a sovereign benefactor over this whole earth." All
that we know of him is contained in one sentence: he fought against the
nomads of Sinai, constructed