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The traditional number of ten plagues is not actually mentioned in Exodus, and other sources differ; Psalms 78 and 105 seem to list only seven or eight plagues and order them differently. [1] It appears that originally there were only seven, to which were added the third, sixth, and ninth, bringing the count to ten. [27]: 83–84
Near East, Hittite Empire, Alashiya, possibly Egypt: Unknown, possibly Tularemia. Mentioned in Amarna letter EA 35 as the "Hand of Nergal", cause of death of Šuppiluliuma I. Unknown Plague of Athens: 430–426 BC Greece, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia: Unknown, possibly typhus, typhoid fever or viral hemorrhagic fever: 75,000–100,000 [30] [31] [32 ...
Genesis 12:10–20 tells of Abram moving to Egypt to escape a period of famine in Canaan. Abram worries that the unnamed pharaoh will kill him and take away his wife Sarai, so Abram tells her to say she is his sister. They are eventually summoned to meet the pharaoh, but God sends plagues against the pharaoh because of his intention to marry Sarai.
Resheph (also Reshef and many other variants, see below; Eblaite ππππ, Rašap, Ugaritic: πππ, ršp, Egyptian ršpw, Phoenician: π€β¬π€β¬π€β¬, ršp, Hebrew: Χ¨ΦΆΧ©ΦΆΧΧ£ RešepΜ) was a god associated with war and plague, originally worshiped in Ebla in the third millennium BCE.
The dates given in this list of pharaohs are approximate. They are based primarily on the conventional chronology of Ancient Egypt, mostly based on the Digital Egypt for Universities [4] database developed by the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, but alternative dates taken from other authorities may be indicated separately.
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Coinciding with Hasan's first reign, [94] in 1347–1348, the Bubonic Plague arrived in Egypt and other plagues followed, causing mass death in the country, which led to major social and economic changes in the region. [79] In 1351, the senior emirs, led by Emir Taz, ousted and replaced Hasan with his brother, al-Salih Salih.
In the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), Thucydides described an epidemic disease which was said to have begun in Ethiopia, passed through Egypt and Libya, then come to the Greek world. In the Plague of Athens, the city lost possibly one third of its population, including Pericles. Modern historians disagree on whether the plague ...