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... that, according to
Herodotus
,
Pharaoh
Necho II
(pictured)
commissioned an expedition of
Phoenicians
, who in three years sailed from the
Red Sea
around Africa back to the
Nile Delta
?
... that the
Diary of Merer
is a group of papyrus logbooks written by Merer, who worked on the transport of white
limestone
blocks from the
Tura quarries
to
Giza
for the outer cladding of the
Great Pyramid
?
... that the
Lost Army of Cambyses
was a legendary army of 50,000 men who all disappeared in a
sandstorm
in Egypt’s
Western Desert
?
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