And to this the kings hastened, before the Mamluks and the powerful, before the lesser ones. So look at how these innovations, which the caravans have followed, were established. Let no one of knowledge ponder them. And often they introduced falsehoods into the minds of the people, and this continued in those after them, generation after generation. So the Egyptians, from ancient times until now, are drowned in a sea of traditions and prisoners under the hands of the powerful. The entry of error into a person causes more jealousy than its entry into himself. The aware person knows this, but the masses are in a state of heedlessness and submission to those who claim authority, until it became innate. If one of them has doubt about a claimant's assertion, he cannot oppose him or refute him. Rather, he is compelled to follow him. And so they were in every group, exposed to people who claimed to be men of God, appointed by Him for this purpose and to lead them to what pleases Him, even though the claim of most of them is false, and they have no purpose other than to bind people with the chains of humiliation, to exploit them for their own purposes and direct them as they wish. And the claims of people in our time have decreased somewhat, and few follow a claimant in his claim. It has become rare to find people who accept something and believe it before they ascertain its truth. Then, Mariette Bey said that between the statue of Memnon and the city of Abu Simbel, there is a plain known as the plain of Mar'a, behind the old tombs. It is a small area of land, built by Ptolemy Philadelphus, and completed by his successors after him. And as for the city of Abu, there are buildings in it similar to the buildings of Karnak, in that some of them are more meticulously crafted and precise than they are grand and magnificent, which was built in the time of Thutmose III, according to Mariette Bey. And some of them are grander than they are precise, which was built in the time of Ramesses III. Among those ruins is a palace built by Ramesses III, called Miamun, who is one of the pharaohs of conquests, like his ancestors Ramesses the Great and Seti. And next to that palace is a temple, not for Thutmose III. And in front of it is another palace adjacent to it, called the Palace, which was not built by this pharaoh. The oldest of these buildings is that temple, which was built in the time of Thutmose III. Its entrance is believed to have been built by the Romans, and on its walls, the names of the emperors Titus, Hadrian, and Antoninus are read. The gate that comes after it is also from the Roman period. And on one side of the entrance is Ptolemy I, and on the other side is Ptolemy II. After that, there is a courtyard. Mariette Bey found on it the name of King Ptolemy I. And upon closer inspection, he realized that this Ptolemy had erased the name of King Nabonidus.