William Matthew Flinders Petrie 
Status of the Jews in Egypt 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. We may glance first at the earlier relations Of Semites with Egypt. The second pre historic Civilization was of Eastern origin; and judging by the strong analogies Of the Egyptian language with Semitic speech, it seems probable that this prehistoric age was dominated by a race which later developed into the historic Semites.