EARLY EGYPTIAN RECORD
JERUSALEM. What is claimed to bo tho earliest royal record of Egyptian campaigns in Palestine has been discovered in the form of a fragment of "a black basalt stele inscribed with three lines of hieroglyphic characters, at Tabgha, north of the Sea of Galilee. Local Egyptological experts attribute the inscription to Thotmes 111, ' who lived in the parly half ,of the fifteenth century, B.C.' The inscription records how Pharaoh overcame the armies of the Mitanni race, living in northwest Syria. The discovery was ado by the Rev. C. T. Bridgeman, the resident American chaplain at Jerusalem.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6667, 21 July 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)
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99EARLY EGYPTIAN RECORD Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6667, 21 July 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)
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