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...TIME and Reader Cooper both overlooked another amphibious operation: the drowning of Pharaoh's hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Hitler's new order of slavery was producing. The Children of Israel made bricks for Pharaoh for many generations until a great leader with a great idea led them to freedom. Last week there was no great leader in France. And the assistance the French people had been led to expect from other enemies of Hitler had not arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Factories at Work | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Harvard Egyptologist; in Gizeh, Egypt. He discovered the tomb of Queen Hetep-heres, mother of Cheops, uncovered the first rich evidences of the civilization of the Fourth Dynasty. In 1911 he announced his answer to the "riddle of the Sphinx," identified it as a portrait of Chephren, Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

There had been nothing like it in that part of the world for 31 centuries-since the Pharaoh Merneptah, in 1221 B.C., sent his archers out to stop an invasion by the Libyans. Like General Sir Archibald Wavell, Merneptah surprised himself with a brilliant success: drove the Libyans to the Mount of the Horns of the Earth, well inside Libya, killed almost half of the invading force, captured most of the others, and took over 120,000 pieces of equipment, including 9,000 copper swords and the King of Libya's sandals, which the King had removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fall of Bengasi | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...must reckon with the possibility," said Dr. May, "that the exodus from Egypt was under the aegis of the snake deity of the Levite tribe, Nehushtan." Moses' rod turned into a serpent when God told him to cast it down (a miracle later performed by Aaron before Pharaoh) and the snake rod was later used by Moses to bring the ten plagues on Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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