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    Wadi Tumilat (Old Egyptian Tjeku/Tscheku/Tju/Tschu) is the 50-kilometre-long (31 mi) dry river valley (wadi) to the east of the Nile Delta. In prehistory...
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    Land of Goshen (category Wadi Tumilat)
    claims that the Qedarites never ruled the region of the Wādī Ṭumīlāt, the discovery in the Wādī Ṭumīlāt region of Qedarite remains, such as a shrine to the...
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  • Pithom (category Wadi Tumilat)
    Édouard Naville and Flinders Petrie were looking for Pithom along the Wadi Tumilat, an arable strip of land serving as the ancient transit route between...
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    Suez Canal (category Wadi Tumilat)
    leading into a dry river valley east of the Nile River Delta named Wadi Tumilat. (It is said that in ancient times the Red Sea reached northward to the...
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    control, silting and changing relief. One such defunct distributary is Wadi Tumilat. The Suez Canal is east of the delta and enters the coastal Lake Manzala...
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    claims that the Qedarites never ruled the region of the Wādī Ṭumīlāt, the discovery in the Wādī Ṭumīlāt region of Qedarite remains, such as a shrine to the...
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    19th dynasty capital Pi-Ramesses, and Succoth with Tell el-Maskhuta in Wadi Tumilat, the biblical Land of Goshen. From Succoth, the Israelites travel to...
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    Springer. p. 21. ISBN 9783319047683. Tjeku, the name of the region of Wadi Tumilat, is regarded by many as an Egyptian rendering of the biblical Sukkot...
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    Suez inscriptions of Darius the Great (category Wadi Tumilat)
    Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Egyptian on five monuments erected in Wadi Tumilat, commemorating the opening of the "Canal of the Pharaohs" between the...
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    Canal of the Pharaohs (category Wadi Tumilat)
    from its modern counterpart, by linking the Nile to the Red Sea via the Wadi Tumilat. Work began under the pharaohs. According to Darius the Great's Suez...
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    El-Habwa would have provided Avaris with grain and trade goods. In the Wadi Tumilat, Tell el-Maskhuta shows a great deal of Levantine pottery and an occupation...
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    Ka (pharaoh) (category Wadi Tumilat)
    Tarkhan, Helwan, Tell Ibrahim Awad, Tell el-Farkha (Eastern Nile Delta), Wadi Tumilat and as far north as Tel Lod in the Southern Levant. The number of artifacts...
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    Temple of Kerman The Suez Inscriptions at the Canal of the Pharaohs in Wadi Tumilat, written by Darius the Great in Persian, Elamite, Akkadian, and Egyptian...
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    Nabataean Aramaic (category Wadi Tumilat)
    inscription from Petra (95 BC), the dedication to the goddess al-Kutbay from Wadi Tumilat (77 BC) and the inscription of Rabbel I from Petra (66 BC). The earliest...
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    Quatrième édition, Paris, pp.104-114. Redmount, Carol A. (1995). "The Wadi Tumilat and the 'Canal of the Pharaohs'." Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 54...
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    Indeed, a letter from an Egyptian scribe at a border fortress in the Wadi Tumilat during the reign of Merneptah reports movement of nomadic "shasu-tribes...
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  • Tell el-Kuʿ (category Wadi Tumilat)
    archaeological site in Egypt, located in the eastern Nile Delta at the Wadi Tumilat. The excavated areas of the site were used at different times as a cemetery...
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    Chronicles by Philip Chapman Barker. p447–448 Redmount, Carol A. "The Wadi Tumilat and the "Canal of the Pharaohs"" Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol...
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    Lake Timsah (category Wadi Tumilat)
    of Suez through the Bitter Lakes region. In 1800, a flood filled the Wadi Tumilat, which caused Timsah's banks to overflow and moved water south into the...
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    Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Egyptian on five monuments erected in Wadi Tumilat, commemorating the opening of a canal between the Nile and the Bitter...
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    the Protodynastic to Early Dynastic cemetery at Kafr Hassan Dawood, Wadi Tumilat, East Delta, Egypt", in Midant-Reynes, B.; Tristant, Y. (eds.), Egypt...
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    Sukkot (place) (category Wadi Tumilat)
    The name Sukkot (Succoth) appears in a number of places in the Hebrew Bible as a location: An Egyptian Sukkot is the second of the stations of the Exodus...
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  • Jr., and was on the staff of the 1978 and 1983 Wadi Tumilat Surveys. He was also on the team of the Wadi al-Hasa Survey, under the supervision of Burton...
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    Story of Wenamun (category Wadi Tumilat)
    places mentioned in Wenamun, assuming that Wenamun journeyed through the wadi Tumilat to lake Timsah. Although her conclusions have so far not been accepted...
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    Volubilis Voncariana Wad ban Naqa Wadi al-Jarf Wadi el-Hudi Wadi Hammamat Wadi Hamra (Gilf Kebir) Wadi Maghareh Wadi Tumilat Wah-Sut Zaraï Zawyet el-Maiyitin...
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  • Shur (Bible) (category Wadi Tumilat)
    James K. Hoffmeier believes that the 'way of Shur' was located along the Wadi Tumilat — an arable strip of land to the east of the Nile Delta, serving as the...
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    Nebkaure Khety (category Wadi Tumilat)
    unearthed by Flinders Petrie at Tell el-Retabah, a location along the Wadi Tumilat in the eastern Delta; this weight is now exhibited at the Petrie Museum...
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  • Saft el-Hinna (category Wadi Tumilat)
    1884, Swiss Egyptologist Édouard Naville was performing a survey in the Wadi Tumilat on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund. He went to Saft el-Hinna, a...
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    BC, Essarhadon sent a large military force to Egypt, possibly via the Wadi Tumilat but was defeated by the Egyptians under Pemu, then ruler of Heliopolis...
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    ancient Egyptian place, which was probably located northeast of the Wadi Tumilat. According to Herodotus (who considered it to mark the boundary between...
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