Archaeology · 2 · Miriam

'Israel is wasted, its seed is no more'

Line 27 of the Merneptah Stele lists Canaan, Ashkelon, Gezer, and Yanoam among Pharaoh's conquests, then declares Israel wiped out.

The boast proved spectacularly wrong.

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Over ten feet high, the granite monument now stands in Cairo's Egyptian Museum. It was the swan song of Egypt's empire in Canaan.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 37–38

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