Maniton was an ancient Egyptian historian from the city Samanoud in
Western Province ; he was a priest during the reign of King Ptolemy II "
Philadelphus 280 . BC . " Which tabbed a personal history of ancient
Egypt. Taking Maniton this task upon himself adopted in his writings on
the documents left by the Egyptian civilization , which was annexed role
of keeping documents temples in addition to all what he found in the
reach of his hands from the documents of government departments and
others; Unfortunately I lost the original date of Maniton during fire
Bibliotheca Alexandrina , and did not we receive from this date only
excerpts moved some historians , including , for example, the Jewish
historian " Josephus " who tried to raise the matter of his family
saying they are the Hyksos who invaded Egypt after the collapse of the
central state . It is also historians of Africa " Julius " in his
transfer some of the names of the Kings , which was codified in original
date Maniton
