Word: egyptian
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...point out that a birth narrative of Sargon of Akkad, a Mesopotamian King who ruled in the millennium before Moses, reads, "My priestly mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid." There is also the Egyptian legend of the god Horus, who is hidden in the Nile delta by his mother Isis to protect him from the wrath of his uncle Seth...
...gigantic monuments of Rameses II provide no evidence of the enslavement of the children of Israel in Egypt. Indeed, Israel does not appear in Egyptian records until the reign of Rameses' son and successor Merneptah. By then it is clearly a nation, not a wandering mass of refugees. But some scholars argue that a group of people called the 'Apiru in Egyptian chronicles may actually have included the Hebrews. And they point out a papyrus fragment that may show that Semitic peoples were used for forced labor. Between 1630 and 1521 B.C., Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos, a Semitic...
...tantalizing hint of historical truth comes when Pharaoh's daughter adopts the child in the basket and names him Moses. The name is connected to a Hebrew verb indicating that she drew him from the water. Many scholars, however, think it derives from an Egyptian suffix meaning "to be born"--just as Rameses, who was considered divine, is a form of Ra-Moses, or "the god Ra is born...
...Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen. He turned this way and that and, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian...
Ever since his arrest five months ago, there has been speculation about how infamous Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal ended up in Egyptian custody. Egyptian authorities refuse even to acknowledge they have the man whose terror organization killed or wounded some 900 people during the 1970s and '80s, but U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME they believe there's a mundane explanation at the heart of his capture--greed. Abu Nidal has assets in real estate and foreign bank accounts that the CIA estimated in 1990 was worth $200 million. But now Abu Nidal, who had been living in Libya, has cancer...