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have reigned before the time when, according to the margins of our Bibles, the Flood of Noah was covering the earth and reducing such bricks as these to their primeval slime." This conclusion was soon placed beyond a doubt.

The lists of king's and collateral inscriptions recovered from the temples of the great valley between the Tigris and Euphrates, and the records of astronomical observations in that region, showed that there, too, a powerful civilization had grown up at a period far earlier than could be made consistent with our sacred chronology.

The science of Assyriology was thus combined with Egyptology to furnish one more convincing proof that, precious as are the moral and religious truths in our sacred books and the historical indications which they give us, these truths and indications are necessarily inclosed in a setting of myth and legend.( 184) (184) As to Manetho, see, for a very full account of his relations to other chronologists, Palmer, Egyptian Chronicles, vol.i, chap.

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For a more recent and readable account, see Brugsch, Egypt under the Pharaohs, English edition, London, 1879, chap.iv.For lists of kings at Abydos and elsewhere, also the lists of architects, see Brugsch, Palmer, Mariette, and others; also illustrations in Lepsius.