Grand Union: This flag was authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 and featured the British Union Jack as well as a field of 13 red and white stripes representing the 13 colonies ... The symbolism apparently carried a double message -- loyalty to Great Britain but unity of the American colonies Table of Contents = Civilizations -- Cultures -- Areas -- Regions -- Prehistory / Excerpts / Other Archaeological Sites
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The History of the Ancient Near East

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ANCIENT ISRAEL IRAQ EGYPT TURKEY IRAN SYRIA
LEBANON JORDAN ARABIA CYPRUS AND BAHRAIN

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Travels and researches in Chaldea and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka,
the "Erech" of Nimrod and Shush or "Shushan the palace" of Esther in 1849-52 (1857)

New Evidence from Egypt on the Location of the Exodus Sea Crossing: Part I
Written by Gary Byers in ASSOCIATES FOR BIBLICAL RESEARCH (19 August 2008)

For millennia man has desired to impact the Suez Isthmus region but with minimal success. Ancient Egyptian texts and modern geological surveys have identified ancient canal lines cut between the marshy lakes of antiquity, called the Eastern Frontier Canal by their discoverers (Hoffmeier 2005: 42). Long before the Suez Canal both native and foreign rulers cut canals through the Isthmus for a variety of reasons. Ancient documents mention canal construction by Pharaohs Sesostris I or III (12th Dynasty) -- Necho II (610-595 BC) and the Persian king Darius (522-486 BC) as well as Ptolemy II (282-246 BC) (Hoffmeier 1997: 165, 169).

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