Merneptah
Americannoun
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The Merneptah Stele was found right across the Nile from Karnak, the Egyptian temple complex that Adrian Veidt named his Antarctic retreat after.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2019
This is an excerpt from the inscription on the Merneptah Stele, dating from 1208 B.C., the only surviving textual reference to Israel from ancient Egypt.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2019
There’s more: Merneptah was the son of Ramesses II, whom the Greeks called Ozymandias.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2019
There had been nothing like it in that part of the world for 31 centuries�since the Pharaoh Merneptah, in 1221 B.C., sent his archers out to stop an invasion by the Libyans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Breasted also seems to think that the Israelites defeated by Merneptah had no direct connection with those who suffered in Egypt, A History of Egypt, p.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl
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