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✧ Merenre Nemtyemsaf I ✧

Merenre Nemtyemsaf I (died c. 2272 BC) was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the fourth king of the Sixth Dynasty. He ruled Egypt for six to eleven years in the early 23rd century BC, toward the end of the Old Kingdom period. He was the son of his predecessor Pepi I Meryre and queen Ankhesenpepi I, and was in turn succ...

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Sheshai (#BiblicalHebrew: שׁ֡שַׁי, romanized: Ε Δ“Ε‘ay) was a clan of #Anakim living in #Hebron named for a son of Anak in the #Bible (Numbers 13:22). The clans were driven out of the city by #Caleb (Joshua 15:14) and the #TribeOfJudah (Judges 1:10). The two brothers of Sheshai were #Ahiman and #Talmai. The #Egyptologists and #archaeologists Aharon Kempinski and #DonaldBRedford have proposed that #Sheshi.

#Egyptologists discovered #Tutmose2’s tomb, the first since Carter’s 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ym30v356po

Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's

It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago.

He Shall Thunder in the Sky - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews He Shall Thunder in the Sky [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Elizabeth Peters, part 12 of the Amelia Peabody series This volume of the Amelia Peabody mysteries is set in Egypt during World War I, and follows on the events of A Falcon at the Portal, resolving many of the […]

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Monday Miscellany!

This week:
- Numbers 7:1-8:26
- #Psalm 8
- #Armed in church?
- #Hebrews papyri
- Book reviews: #James commentary, women #Egyptologists

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19 August 2024

Love and Gold in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Amarna Letters. In: G. Rosati - M. Guidotti (eds.). 2017. Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists. Florence, Italy, 23-30 August, 2015. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 233-236.

This essay analyzes the relationship between the supplies of gold, the inter-states alliances, and the concept of love in the cross-cultural discourse in the Amarna Letters. The Amarna Letters record the exchange of gifts between Great Kings on the

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