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  Pharaoh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Commissioned one of the Great Pyramid s at Giza
The X Dynasty was a local group that held sway over Upper Egypt.
The XI Dynasty was a local group with roots in Lower Egypt.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Israel
The particular Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty who treated the Israelites with special rigour was Rameses II, who became king at about the age of eighteen and reigned upwards of sixty years (about 1300-1234 B.C.).
He employed them on field labour (Exodus 1:14); engaged them upon the store cities of Phithom (the ruins of which, eleven or twelve miles from Ismailia, show that it was built for that monarch) and Ramesse, thus called after his name; and finally made a desperate attempt to reduce their numbers by organized infanticide.
Pa-Ramessu Meriamum (the Place of Rameses II), but it is more probably to be located at Tell er-Retabeh, "in the middle of the length of the Wady Tumilat, about twenty miles from Ismailia on the East (Flinders Petrie), and only eight miles distant from Phithom.
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 Rameses (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
After the Hebrews had built Rameses, one of the "treasure cities," it came to be known as the "land" in which that city was built.
Huge masses of bricks, made of Nile mud, sun-dried, some of them mixed with stubble, possibly moulded by Jewish hands, still mark the site of Rameses.
This was the general rendezvous of the Israelites before they began their march out of Egypt.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/rameses.html   (110 words)

  
 Canaan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, there were five places where "new" evidence on Canaanite culture had been obtained, including Tell-el-Hasy, eventually identified with the Lachish of the Old Testament, where excavations were made in 1890-1892 by Flinders Petrie and Bliss; and Gezer, identified with the Gezer of I Kings x.
The letters are written in the official and diplomatic language Babylonian, though "Canaanitish" words and idioms are not wanting.
1290 BC) is said to have conquered the Shasu, Arabian nomads living just south and east of the Dead Sea, from the fortress of Taru (Shtir?) to "the Ka-n-'-na," and Rameses III (ca.
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