Among all these monuments the scholar who visits Egypt is most impressed by the sculptured tablets giving the lists of kings.

Each shows the monarch of the period doing homage to the long line of his ancestors.

Each of these sculptured monarchs has near him a tablet bearing his name.

That great care was always taken to keep these imposing records correct is certain; the loyalty of subjects, the devotion of priests, and the family pride of kings were all combined in this; and how effective this care was, is seen in the fact that kings now known to be usurpers are carefully omitted.

The lists of court architects, extending over the period from Seti to Darius, throw a flood of light over the other records.
Comparing, then, all these sources, and applying an average from the lengths of the long series of well-known reigns to the reigns preceding, the most careful and cautious scholars have satisfied themselves that the original fragments of Manetho represent the work of a man honest and well informed, and, after making all allowances for discrepancies and the overlapping of reigns, it has become clear that the period known as the reign of Mena must be fixed at more than three thousand years B.C.In this the great Egyptologists of our time concur.