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Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw is a historical fiction children's book. [1] It follows Mara, a young Egyptian slave girl who takes up a dangerous job as a double spy between two different masters.
Well in the desert. According to the Book of Exodus, the Israelites reached Marah after travelling in the Wilderness of Shur, [3] while according to the stations list in the Book of Numbers, the Israelites had reached Marah after travelling in the Wilderness of Etham; [2] both biblical sources state that the Israelites were at Marah before reaching Elim.
Elim (Hebrew: אֵילִם, romanized: ʾĒlīm), according to the Hebrew Bible, was one of the places where the Israelites camped following the Exodus from Egypt. It is referred to in Exodus 15:27 and Numbers 33:9 as a place where "there were twelve wells of water and seventy date palms," and that the Israelites "camped there near the waters".
Marea (Ancient Egyptian: pr-mrt; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Μαρεη Mareē, Μαρεια Mareia, Μαρια Maria; Latin: Marea) was an ancient city in Egypt, located 45 km south-west of Alexandria, on the southern shore of Lake Maryut (ancient Mareōtis, Μαρεωτις). [3]
The Biblical text mentions two very similar episodes that both occur at a place named Meribah.The episode recounted in Exodus 17 features the Israelites quarreling with Moses about the lack of water, and Moses rebuking the Israelites for testing Yahweh; [6] verse 7 states that it was on this account that the place gained the name Massah, meaning testing, and the name Meribah meaning quarreling ...
Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 9781854792181. OCLC 1036776190; This study seeks to bring to life the craftsmen, labourers and administrators of Ancient Egypt, looking at their religion, education and concept of order based on the family unit. [8] Dutch translation: Wilson, Hilary (1998). Het volk van de farao's [The People of the Pharaohs] (in ...
Via Maris, or Way of Horus (Middle Egyptian: ḫꜣt Ḥr, lit. 'Khet Her') was an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia – along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Syria.
John Lewis Romer (born 30 September 1941, in Surrey, England) is a British Egyptologist, historian and archaeologist.He has created and appeared in many TV archaeology series, including Romer's Egypt, Ancient Lives, Testament, The Seven Wonders of the World, Byzantium: The Lost Empire and Great Excavations: The Story of Archaeology.