He also wrote a history of Egypt, to correct the errors of Manetho.
The story of Manetho therefore goes to prove that the origin of animal worship is anterior to written records.
This dynasty is Manetho's twelfth, and the time of its rule has been characterized as "the happiest age of Egyptian history?"
For this writer gives us two fragments out of a lost work by Manetho, a priest, who lived about 250 B. C.
Great material development characterized the beginning of what Manetho designated as the Middle Empire.