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Photograph of architectural ruins of Memphis, the capital of Egypt at the time of Ramses II and Moses

Photograph of architectural ruins of Memphis, the capital of Egypt at the time of Ramses II and Moses
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Photograph of architectural ruins of Memphis, the capital of Egypt at the time of Ramses II and Moses. Egyptian boys swim in ponds that contain ruins of the temple to the bull god decorated with hieroglyphs. Bulrush plants grow in the pond water that is near to where Moses was found in the Nile River by Pharaoh’s daughter. The scene with boys in the water with bulrushes is evocative of the Exodus story in the bible. Memphis was a capital of Lower Egypt and the Old Kingdom and an administrative center after 2200 BCE. The ruins are 20 kilometers south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile. Photograph by Nathan Benn taken October 3, 1974.

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Memphis, Nile, Nile River, Egypt

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Bible, Bulrush, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian, Lower Egypt, Memphis, Moses, Nathan Benn, Nile, Nile River, Old Kingdom, Ramses, architectural, boys, bulrushes, capital, exodus, hieroglyphs, photograph, plants, pond, ruin, stock photo, swim, temple, water

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