Manetho

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[man-uh-thoh] / ˈmæn əˌθoʊ /

noun

1. flourished c250 b.c., Egyptian high priest of Heliopolis: author of a history of Egypt.

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Manetho

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

Genealogies also pass from the bald verse, which was the vehicle for oral transmission, to such elaborate tables as those in which Manetho has preserved the dynasties of Egyptian Pharaohs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

The dynasties of Manetho were successive and not contemporaneous.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The invaders were called by Manetho, the Egyptian historian, the Hyksos or Shepherd Princes: on the monuments they are known as the Aamu or “Asiatics.”

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

This would be the only Egyptian mention of the Deluge, the same Manetho not speaking of it in what remains to us of his "Dynasties," his only complete authentic work.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

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