2-714-355 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Anysis Concealed in the Marshes of the Delta', 1890. Anysis may have been Pharaoh Tefnakht, of the 24th dynasty, Third Intermediate Period, who lost his kingdom to Ethiopian (Nubian) king Sabachos and hid on the island of Elbo for fifty years while the Ethiopians ruled Egypt, then took his throne back. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]