Egypt

Location

Type

region

Coordinates

30.1294, 31.3075

Certainty

very-high

OpenBible.info: "Egypt (ancient): very high confidence".

OpenBible.info GeoJSON point mb69a90 (representative point for the region).

• OpenBible.info entry (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0, OpenBible.info)
• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)
• Wikidata Q11768 (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• Genesis 12:10 (opens in a new tab)
• Genesis 41:41 (opens in a new tab)
• Exodus 1:1 (opens in a new tab)
• Exodus 12:41 (opens in a new tab)

Events here

• Abraham Leaves Haran, Enters Canaan and Goes Down to Egypt
• Accession of Amenemhat I
• Accession of Mentuhotep II
• Failed assassination attempt on Amenemhat I (Pharaoh's baker and butler)
• Aswan Canal first dug
• Death of Concharis (Khaankhra Sobekhotep) and Merenre II, 1491 BC
• Approximate death of Moeris, the pharaoh of Joseph
• Djoser's seven-year famine
• Dynasty 3 of Memphis (Nebka to Sneferu)
• Egyptian state founded: first cities (Thinis, Nekheb) — Menes/Mizraim
• End of Dynasty 12 (death of Sobekneferu)
• End of Dynasty 8 of Memphis
• The Exodus from Egypt and the Red Sea Crossing
• Fall of Heracleopolis to Thebes; end of Dynasty 9
• Founding of Itjtawy; start of Dynasty 13
• The Great War in Egypt
• Jacob and his family go down to Egypt (AM 2298)
• Joseph Made Ruler over Egypt
• Joseph's seven-year famine
• Birth of Moses
• Moses kills an Egyptian and flees to Midian
• Reign of Queen Nitocris (Netjerkare Siptah)
• Reign of Semiramis I (Merneith/Uenephes)
• Royal honours given to Heracleopolis and Thebes by Dynasty 4
• Senusret III returns from Asia; astronomical college ("Egyptian Belus")
• War of Unification; Memphis founded; Thoth brings writing into Egypt

Maps

• Route of the travels of the Israelites 40 years in the desert (Amsterdam Haggadah map, 1695)

Related

• Abraham Leaves Haran, Enters Canaan and Goes Down to Egypt
• Joseph Made Ruler over Egypt
• The Exodus from Egypt and the Red Sea Crossing
• Joseph
• Moses
• Mizraim
• Jacob and his family go down to Egypt (AM 2298)
• Birth of Moses

CFAH charts

• (full image opens in a new tab)

  CFAH-6 · Fig. 1

  CFAH Egyptian chronology.

  Introduction

  • Open image (opens in a new tab)
  • Open paper (opens in a new tab)

  Records: Egypt

  Answers Research Journal (publicly served image; hotlinked, not copied)

All CFAH charts

Free sources

• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.