Word: merenptah
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...Canaan has been plundered into every sort of woe . . . Israel is laid waste and his seed is not." In 1207 B.C., in the fifth year of his reign, the Egyptian Pharaoh Merenptah used these words to herald the victorious campaign he had waged two years earlier against Canaan, to the north of Egypt. In the process, the Pharaoh may have given the world its first recorded mention of the people of Israel. Merenptah's account of his military exploits is inscribed on a granite monolith 7 1/2 ft. high and 3 1/4 ft. wide. The stone was recovered...
...there may be pictures to accompany Merenptah's text. In an article appearing in the current issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Frank Yurco, an expert in ancient Egyptian inscriptions, who works at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, says he found representations of the Pharaoh's Canaanite campaign chiseled into stone blocks at the Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt. According to Yurco, the figures dressed in ankle-length clothes at the upper left corner of the top slab are the defeated Israelites; more Israelites lie in a confused jumble at the slab's bottom edge. If Yurco's theory...
...cleared. Besides a number of stelae, the most interesting discovery was a vauit built of interlocking bricks; this is a unique example of such construction at so early a date. At Memphis the expedition is still engaged in uncovering a great complex of buildings dating from the reign of Merenptah (ca. 1225-1215 B. C.), the son of Rameses the Great. Thus far nearly the whole of a large festival temple, or palace, has been cleared and richly inlaid walls found...
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