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
There’s more: Merneptah was the son of Ramesses II, whom the Greeks called Ozymandias.
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
Egypt's legendary Merneptah, the Pharaoh of the Hebrew Exodus, suffered from arteriosclerosis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The one contemporary reference to Israel thus far found in the Egyptian inscriptions comes from the reign of Merneptah the son of Ramses II.
From The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
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