The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-18
CHRONOLOGICAL ACE or TIE WORLD.-
EXACT AGREEMENT or THE EGYPTIAN
AN pI4I I'LL NIQnNnI nHY


In the Old Chronicle Of Egypt there is period Of
four hundred and forty-thre- years of cynic cy-
Gle, containing fifteen generations, which preccdes
the record Of the historic kings Of Egypt. A new
calendar was then adapted, B. C. 1856, as is shown
by the following calculations; and a soth;c cycle
then began, which ended in the year Is. c. SIS,
when Cambyses, the Persian, conquered Egypt four
teen hundred and sixsy-one Egyptian years later
ended in the year b. c. SIS has been doubted, be-
cause it has been assumed that sothic cycle could
only begin when First Th0th, the new-yeaf's day of
the Egyptians, conceded with the heiecal rising Of
the sirius, and therefore the Sothic cycle Of the
Old Chrcnicle must have commenced on the 10th Of
July, b. G. 1872; but Mr.. Osburn, in his Monu-
mental History OF Egypt, has shown that, ut the
was the day Of tho full moon after the star Sirius
appeared in the evening, after the setting Of the
sun; and by calculation, It is certain that such
coincidence happened in the month Of December,
BY using the luni solar cycle of seven hundred
years, composed by multiplying the solar cycle Of
twenty-eight years BY the lunar cycle Of twenty
Eve years, tho period Of four hundred and forty-
three years is thus explained:
From the sum Of three luni solar cycles
OF seven hundred years.. 100 years
Deduct the years Of the world from the
creation Of Adam to the end Of the
The remainder is the period found in
the Old Chronicle. AS years.
These dates and periods produce remarkable
agreement with the Bible Chronology, as contained
in Browns Onlo saclorum, which dates the creation
Of Adam B. G 400, and the beginning Of the De-
Cambysea conquered Egypt BIC. s.,
Add sothic cycle. ,46l years
The beginning Of the calendar, B. c. 1865
Add part OF cynic cycle. AS years.
Misraim, father Of the Egyptians, D. c. 2as9 years,
or sixteen years after the deluge had ended.
The year Of the world, at tho end of three luni
solar cycles of seven hundred years each, is equal
TO g. c. sixteen years prior to- b. g. 1886 but
Ptoaemy, Of Mendcs, having expressly stated that
the Old Chronicle began with the seventeenth year
OF Adam, the difference is at once accounted for.
But the Old Chronicle is composed Of Twenty-Five
each. equal to thrtysix thousand Eve hundred and
Twenty-Five years, Of which twenty-one cycles are
gwen to the gods and four cycles to the human
race, down to Cambyscs Various attempts have
been made to reconcile these enormous periods with
the truth, principally BY considering the years to be
lunar instead OF solar, but without any accurate re-
suit.
The following solution brings the Old chronicl
and the Hebrew Bible into exact agreement:
When the Egyptians adopted the calendar. and
gave names to the months corresponding to the sea-
sons, they commenced the fourth cycle Of seven
hundred years, which cycle was. in later times ex-
tended to one thousand four hundl ed and sxty.one
years. and was called . sothic cycle. Hence, when
the history Of the world was contained in four cy-
cles: but being desirous Of making Egypt the old
est country Of the World the four cycles each
made to consist o. one thousapd. four hundred and
only necessary to reject the twenty-one cycles be-
LONGING to the gods, and give the remaining four
| cycles their proper value, thus:
3 luni solar cycles of sevcn hundred years
each 2lOO
sothic cycle. 46i