Pharaoh's Island refers to an island in the northern Gulf of Aqaba off the shore of Egypt's eastern Sinai Peninsula.
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... This event happened in 925 BCE when Pharaoh Sheshonk I of the Third Intermediate Period invaded Canaan following the Battle of Bitter Lakes ... Possibly this is the same Pharaoh as Shishaq, the first Pharaoh mentioned in the Bible, who captured and pillaged Jerusalem ...
... Type Name Title Royal house From To Refs Sovereign Shoshenq V Pharaoh Twenty-second dynasty 778 BC 740 BC Sovereign Titaru Pharaoh Libu 763 BC 755 BC Sovereign Ker Pharaoh Libu 755 BC 750 BC Sovereign Rudamon Pharaoh Libu 750 BC 745 BC. ...
... of Congo Belgian Congo Matadi Tintin in the Congo Egypt Port Said Cigars of the Pharaoh, The Blue Lotus (The SS Ranchi is sailing via Port Said) Cairo The ...
... Hebrew Bible, when the city was conquered and burned by an Egyptian pharaoh, most likely Siamun, during his military campaign in Palestine ... This anonymous Egyptian pharaoh then gave it to King Solomon as the dowry of his daughter ... Pharaoh King of Egypt had come up and captured Gezer he destroyed it by fire, killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the town, and gave it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife ...
Famous quotes containing the words island and/or pharaoh:
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Senta: These boats, sir, what are they for?
Hamar: They are solar boats for Pharaoh to use after his death. They’re the means by which Pharaoh will journey across the skies with the sun, with the god Horus. Each day they will sail from east to west, and each night Pharaoh will return to the east by the river which runs underneath the earth.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)