HUMAN ORIGINS
HUMAN ORIGINS.
Published July 1892, 1500 copies.
Reprinted August 1892, 1500 copies.
Reprinted September 1892, 2000 copies.
BY
S. LAING
AUTHOR OF
"PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE," "MODERN SCIENCE AND MODERN THOUGHT,"
"A MODERN ZOROASTRIAN," ETC.
With Illustrations
FIFTH THOUSAND
CHAPMAN AND HALL: Ld.
1892
[All rights reserved]
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
London & Bungay.
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| Introduction | 1 |
| PART I.—Evidence from History. | |
| CHAPTER I. EGYPT. | |
| Historical Standard of Time—Short Date inconsistent withEvolution—Laws of Historical Evidence—History beginswith Authentic Records—Records of Egypt oldest—Manetho'sLists—Confirmed by Hieroglyphics—Origin ofWriting—The Alphabet—Phonetic Writing—Clue to Hieroglyphics—TheRosetta Stone—Champollion—Principles ofHieroglyphic Writing—Language Coptic—Can be read withcertainty—Confirmed by Monuments—Manetho's Date forMenes 5004 b.c.—Old, Middle, and New Empires—OldEmpire, Menes, to end of Sixth Dynasty—Break betweenOld and Middle Empires—Works of Twelfth Dynasty—Fayoum—Thirteenthand Fourteenth Dynasties—HyksosConquests—Duration of Hyksos Rule—Their Expulsion andFoundation of New Empire—Conquests in Asia of Seventeenthand Eighteenth Dynasties—Wars with Hittites andAssyrians—Persian and Greek Dynasties—Summary ofEvidence for Date of Menes—Period prior to Menes—Horsheshu—Sphynx—StoneAge—Neolithic and PalæolithicRemains—Horner, Haynes, and Pitt-Rivers | 5 |
| CHAPTER II. CHALDÆA. | |
| Chronology—Berosus—His Dates mythical—Dates in Genesis—Synchronismswith Egypt and Assyria—Monuments—CuneiformInscriptions—How deciphered—Behistan Inscription—Grotefendand Rawlinson—Layard—Library of Koyunjik—Howvipreserved—Accadian Translations and Grammars—HistoricalDates—Elamite Conquest—Commencement ofModern History—Ur-Ea and Dungi—Nabonidus—Sargon I.,3800 b.c.—Ur of the Chaldees—Sharrukin's Cylinder—HisLibrary—His Son Naram-Sin—Semites and Accadians—Accadiansand Chinese—Period before Sargon I.—Patesi—DeSarzec's find at Sirgalla—Gud-Ea, 4000 to 4500 b.c.—Advanceof Delta—Astronomical Records—Chaldæa andEgypt give similar results—-Historic Period 6000 or 7000years—and no trace of a beginning | 42 |