[SunkenCiv]

Scorched mud bricks from an Egyptian fortification gate in Jaffa. [CREDIT: ©: Martin Peilstöcker + The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project]

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

So Morsi just wants back what is already Egypt’s.

What is the problem? </s>

[Moorings]

Fascinating. Wonder who destroyed the Egyptian fortification.

[BIGLOOK]

Not surprising, the Babylonians rounded up the Jews for their building and architectural skills and so did the Egyptians; of course that was at a time when the tribes were scattered around the neighborhood. Just another slave trade transit site.

[Verginius Rufus]

Amenhotep III was the father of the famous or infamous Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaton, who tried to impose a kind of quasi-monotheism on Egypt which only lasted as long as he was alive. Apparently Akhenaton was the second son so if his older brother had survived things might have taken a different course. Sort of like Charles I of England who only became king because his older brother Henry died young.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

They have also found the scarab, which bears the cartouche of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III... Scarabs were common charms in ancient Egypt, representing the journey of the sun across the sky and the cycle of life.
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I know I’m pretty off topic, here, but isn’t the scarab a dung beetle?

Would you believe that I found one of those suckers at my back door (in the deep South)? NO, NOT kidding. Still have him preserved with the roll of poop (or mud) he was hauling. I’ve wondered it they have been imported.

[marron]

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, have long uncovered evidence of Egyptian influence. Now, researchers have learned that a gateway belonging to an Egyptian fortification in Jaffa was destroyed and rebuilt at least four times.

I remember that Velikovsky made the claim that Israel was actually independent for only a relatively brief time, and that the south fell back under Egyptian suzerainty after the death of Solomon. That, while it had a hebrew king, it also had an Egyptian governor.