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
Unfortunately the original work of Manetho is lost, and we are dependent for our knowledge of it on later writers, most of whom sought to harmonise its chronology with that of the Septuagint.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Quotes from Manetho, Lysimakhos, etc., in his Antiquities of the Jews and Contra Apionem.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Moreover, the papyrus does not agree with Manetho in the division of the dynasties; at certain places, which do not coincide with the sections of Manetho, totals are given of the preceding reigns.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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