They have made it clear that the reaction against the reforms and government of "the Heretic King" Khu-n-Aten was as much national as religious.

It was directed quite as much against the foreigner who had usurped the chief offices of state, as against the religion which the foreigner was believed to have brought with him.

The rise of the Nineteenth dynasty marks the triumph of the national uprising and the overthrow of Asiatic influence.

The movement of which it was the result resembled the revolt of Arabi in our own days.

But there was no England at hand to prevent the banishment of the stranger and his religion; the Semites who had practically governed Egypt under Khu-n-Aten were expelled or slain, and hard measure was dealt out to such of their kinsfolk as still remained in the land.