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THE COLUMNED PALACE west of the Tell el-Dab’a mound, as well as a va ri ety of
OTHER BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS that seem to have sur rounded the Birka lake.
One of these, a TEMPLE OF THE EGYPTIAN KING AMENEMHET I., was found to con -
tain a tab let spe cif i cally re fer ring to the ‘TEMPLE OF AMENEMHET in [at] the wa ter of
the town’ -- in de pend ent cor rob o ra tion of the town’s abun dance of wa ter....

But what is also quite ob vi ous from Dr. Bietak’s find ings is that not only was this site the
TRUE BIBLICAL RAMESSES, it quite ev i dently had a his tory MUCH EARLIER than the
time of Ramesses II. as well, and was in fact none other than the HYKSOS CAPITAL,
AVARIS, re ferred to in Manetho’s His tory. -- The Ex o dus Enigma, by Ian Wil son.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Lon don. 1985. Pps. 48, 49 & 52.

The City of the Sun!

Let’s look at an other city men tioned in the Sep tu a gint ver sion of the Bi ble -- On, or
Heliopolis. Al though the city of On was n’t orig i nally set tled dur ing the Mid dle King dom, it was,
how ever, REBUILT ON A MASSIVE SCALE by a pha raoh of the 12th DYNASTY! We read
about this in Henry Brugsch-Bey’s book, A His tory of Egypt Un der the Pha raohs:

...a re mark able doc u ment on parch ment, which I had the good for tune to ac quire at Thebes
in 1858, and which for some years past has been in the pos ses sion of the Berlin col lec tion of
Egyp tian an tiq ui ties, make the fact cer tain, that USURTASEN I. [of the 12th Dy nasty], at
the very be gin ning of his reign, oc cu pied him self with BUILDINGS AT THE TEMPLE OF
THE CITY OF THE SUN [ON, HELIOPOLIS]. This im por tant ma te rial informs us how, in
the third year of his reign, he as sem bled round his throne the first of fi cials of his court, to
hear their opin ion and their coun sel as to his in ten tion of RAISING WORTHY
BUILDINGS TO THE SUN-GOD. As usual in such as sem blies, the king be gins his ad dress
with a sol emn ref er ence to his di vine de scent....From this he pro ceeds to a dis course on the
im por tance of the build ings and mon u ments ded i cated to the de i ties, start ing from the idea
that such alone are able to im mor tal ize the mem ory of a ruler. Af ter the ad dress, the as sem -
bled coun sel lors UNANIMOUSLY APPROVE the good in ten tions of their lord, and en -
cour age him to carry out the same with out de lay. THE PHARAOH IMMEDIATELY
GIVES HIS COMMAND TO THE PROPER COURT OFFICIAL, ENJOINS HIM TO
WATCH OVER THE UNINTERRUPTED PROGRESS OF THE WORK WHICH HAS
BEEN DETERMINED UPON, and then be gins the sol emn cer e mony of LAYING THE
FOUNDATION-STONE by the king him self. -- Pps.151-152.

The re sult of this cer e mony was a work that can still be seen to day! Not far from Cairo, in
the neigh bor hood of the vil lage of Matarich, a huge obe lisk made out of the hard est and most beau -
ti ful rose gran ite points sky ward, com mem o rat ing the work of the Is ra el ites as they slaved un der
this pha raoh to re-build the “City of the Sun.”

Usurtasen erected a mas sive BRICK-BUILT dou ble wall around the main tem ple at
Heliopolis, which also sur rounded the area of pres ent-day Tell Hisn. The area this wall en closed has
been es ti mated to mea sure some 1,100 by 475 me ters, or 1,203.4 by 519.7 yards! (At las of An cient
Egypt, by Baines and Malek. P.173).

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