History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)

CHAPTER I--THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE--(continued)

_Ramses III.: Manners and Customs--Population--The predominance of Amon and his high priests._

Opposite the Thebes of the living, Khafîtnîbûs, the Thebes of the dead, had gone on increasing in a remarkably rapid manner. It continued to extend in the south-western direction from the heroic period of the XVIIIth dynasty onwa...