It most probably ante-dated the epoch of Mena, the first historical Egyptian king. How long before his period it existed, in the present condition of our knowledge Of the ancient history and thought of Egypt, it is impossible to sur mise. Of the aborigines Of the land of Egypt we do not know nor are we very likely to know, anything. Of the race' known to us as the Egyptian we can now assert with much certainty, that it was a Caucasian people, and likely came from an original home in Asia. When the invader arrived in the valley of the Nile, he appears to have been highly civilized and to have had an elevated form of religious belief.