CHINESE CHRONOLOGY AND CYCLES.

...an old marble or stone tablet erected by order of Qin Shi Huang original: "Sho hwang-ti"; the first emperor of a unified China, reigned 221–210 BC, in memory of his journey to that mountain referring to Mount Tai, mentioned on the previous page. Physical support from ancient monuments to confirm the Chinese system of chronology is thus lacking. Furthermore, there is no external testimony from the records of other nations to supply this deficiency of evidence, nor to testify to the antiquity of the Chinese either as a nation or to the chronology proposed by the previously mentioned writers—unless some of the yet-undeciphered cuneiform tablets in public or private museums may eventually furnish unexpected proofs in its favor.

François Chabas, in his Studies on Antiquity original: "Etudes sur l'antiquitè", chapter 4, page 97, "On the nations known to the ancient Egyptians" original: "sur les nations connues des anciens Egyptiens", shows that in the monuments of that country, there is no mention of any nation known to the Egyptians that corresponds to China, even though they knew all the other established nations existing alongside their own early history.

There are old traditions that the Egyptians had colonies as far east in Asia as Bactria An ancient region in Central Asia, covering parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan at a very ancient date. Diodorus Siculus says that in times of remote antiquity, the Egyptians had sent out colonies over the whole known world (see Sir George Cornewall Lewis, An Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients, page 261). This has been recently explained by Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès, who cites the ancient authorities on the subject in The Ocean of the Ancients and Prehistoric Peoples original: "L'ocean des anciens et les peuples antehistoriques", in the chapter "The Cushite Colonies" original: "Les colonies coushites", Paris 1873. He shows that Bamiyan original: "Bamian"; a valley in modern-day Afghanistan known for its ancient giant Buddha statues was the capital of the Egyptian...