Manetho
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The major intellectual pursuit of his last years was a concordance and calibration of the chronologies of ancient civilizations, very much in the tradition of the ancient historians Manetho, Strabo and Eratosthenes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
According to a passage in Manetho, much suspected, however, of being an interpolation, Thoth or Hermes Trismegistus had himself, before the cataclysm, inscribed on stelæ in hieroglyphical and sacred language the principles of all knowledge.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
Manetho begins his history of Egypt with the rule of the gods.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
Manetho puts Ptah at the head of the dynasties of the gods.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
According to the list of Manetho, Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus belonged to the fourth dynasty.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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