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Shepsesre Tefnakht ( in Greek known as Tnephachthos ) was a ___MASK72___ of Sais and founder of the relatively short Twenty - fourth dynasty of Egypt ; he rose to become a Chief of the Ma in his home city . He is thought to have reigned roughly 732 BCE to 725 BCE , or 7 years . Tefnakht I first began his career as the " Great Chief of the West " and ___MASK72___ of Sais and was a late contemporary of the last ruler of the 22nd dynasty : Shoshenq V . Tefnakht I was actually the second ruler of Sais ; he was preceded by Osorkon C , who is attested by several documents mentioning him as this city ' s Chief of the Ma and Army Leader , according to Kenneth Kitchen , while his predecessor as Great Chief of the West was a man named Ankhhor . A recently discovered statue , dedicated by Tefnakht I to Amun - Re , reveals important details about his personal origins . The statue ' s text states that Tefnakht was the son of a certain Gemnefsutkapu and the grandson of Basa , a priest of Amun near Sais . Consequently , Tefnakht was not actually descended from a line of Chiefs of the Ma and Libu tribes as traditionally believed but rather came from a family of priests . Eusebius of Caesarea (" Eusébios "; 260 / 265  339 / 340 ), also known as Eusebius Pamphili , was a Greek historian of Christianity , exegete , and Christian polemicist . He became the ___MASK11___ of Caesarea Maritima about 314 AD . Together with Pamphilus , he was a scholar of the Biblical ___MASK37___ and is regarded as an extremely well learned Christian of his time . He wrote " Demonstrations of the Gospel ", " Preparations for the Gospel ", and " On Discrepancies between the Gospels ", studies of the Biblical text . As " Father of Church History " he produced the " Ecclesiastical History ", " On the Life of Pamphilus ", the " Chronicle " and " On the Martyrs ". Sextus Julius Africanus ( c . 160  c . 240 ) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late second and early third centuries . He is important chiefly because of his influence on Eusebius , on all the later writers of Church history among the ___MASK77___ , and on the whole Greek school of chroniclers . Lower Egypt ("") is the northernmost region of Egypt : the fertile Nile Delta , between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea  from El Aiyat , south of modern - day Cairo , and Dahshur . Aakheperre Shoshenq V was a ___MASK29___ of the late 22nd Dynasty . The Libu ( R ' bw , Ribou , Labu ) were an Ancient Libyan tribe of an Amazigh origin , from which the name " ___MASK92___ " derives . Bakenranef , known by the ancient Greeks as Bocchoris , was briefly a king of the Twenty - fourth dynasty of Egypt . Based at Sais in the western Delta , he ruled Lower Egypt from c . 725 to 720 BC . Though the Ptolemaic period Egyptian historian Manetho considers him the sole member of the Twenty - fourth dynasty , modern scholars include his father Tefnakht in that dynasty . Although Sextus Julius Africanus quotes Manetho as stating that `` Bocchoris '' ruled for six years , some modern scholars again differ and assign him a shorter reign of only five years , based on evidence from an Apis Bull burial stela . It establishes that Bakenranef ' s reign ended only at the start of his 6th regnal year which , under the Egyptian dating system , means he had a reign of 5 full years . Bakenranef ' s prenomen or royal name , Wahkare , means `` Constant is the Spirit of Re '' in Egyptian . Manetho is the source for two events from Bakenranef ' s reign . The first is the story that a lamb uttered the prophecy that Egypt would be conquered by the Assyrians , a story later repeated by such classical authors as Claudius Aelianus ( De Natura Animalis 12 . 3 ) . The second was that Bakenranef was captured by Shabaka , a king of the Twenty - fifth dynasty , who executed Bakenrenef by having him burned alive . A Kushite king , Shabaka extended his rule over the whole of Egypt , which had been split since the Twenty - first dynasty . Diodorus Siculus , writing about three centuries after Manetho , adds some different details . Diodorus states that although Bakenranef was `` contemptible in appearance '' , he was wiser than his predecessors ( 1 . 65 ) . The Egyptians attributed to him a law concerning contracts , which provided for a way to discharge debts where no bond was signed ; it was observed down to Diodorus ' time ( 1 . 79 ) . For this , and other acts , Diodorus included `` Bocchoris '' as one of the six most important lawgivers of ancient Egypt . For a minor kinglet briefly in control of the Nile Delta , this is an unexpectedly prominent ranking : `` He was a surprising choice , '' Robin Lane Fox observes , `` Perhaps some Greeks , unknown to us , had had close dealings with him ; from his reign we have scarab - seals bearing his Egyptian name , one of which found its way into a contemporary Greek grave on Ischia up near the Bay of Naples . '' Ischia was the earliest of eighth - century Greek colonies in Italy . The Roman historian Tacitus mentions that many Greek and Roman writers thought he had a part in the origin of the Jewish nation : Most writers , however , agree in stating that once a disease , which horribly disfigured the body , broke out over Egypt ; that king Bocchoris , seeking a remedy , consulted the oracle of Hammon , and was bidden to cleanse his realm , and to convey into some foreign land this race detested by the gods . The people , who had been collected after diligent search , finding themselves left in a desert , sat for the most part in a stupor of grief , till one of the exiles , Moses by name , warned them not to look for any relief from God or man , forsaken as they were of both , but to trust to themselves , taking for their heaven - sent ___MASK70___ that man who should first help them to be quit of their present misery . They agreed , and in utter ignorance began to advance at random . Nothing , however , distressed them so much as the scarcity of water , and they had sunk ready to perish in all directions over the plain , when a herd of wild asses was seen to retire from their pasture to a rock shaded by trees . Moses followed them , and , guided by the appearance of a grassy spot , discovered an abundant spring of water . This furnished relief . After a continuous journey for six days , on the seventh they possessed themselves of a country , from which they expelled the inhabitants , and in which they founded a city and a temple Despite the importance implied by these writers , few contemporary records of Bakenranef have survived . The chief inscription of his reign concerns the death and burial of an Apis bull during Years 5 and 6 of his reign ; the remainder are a few stelae that Auguste Mariette recovered while excavating the Serapeum in Saqqara . Shabaka deposed and executed Bakenranef by burning him alive at the stake and buried the Bull in his own Year 2 ( 720 BC ) while campaigning in Lower Egypt . This effectively ended the short - lived 24th Dynasty of Egypt as a potential rival to the Nubian 25th Dynasty . Manetho is believed to have been an Egyptian ___MASK5___ from Sebennytos ( ancient Egyptian : " Tjebnutjer ") who lived during the Ptolemaic era in the early 3rd century BC . The Nile ( " en - Nl ", " an - Nl " " P ( h ) iaro "; Ancient Egyptian : "  ' p " and " Iteru "; Biblical Hebrew :  , " Ha - Ye ' or ") is a major north - flowing river in northeastern Africa . It is generally regarded as the longest river in the world , however other conflicting sources cite a 2007 study that gave the title to the Amazon River in South America . The Nile , which is 6 , 853 km ( ___MASK9___ , 258 miles ) long , is an " international " river as its water resources are shared by eleven countries , namely , Tanzania , Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi , Congo - Kinshasa , Kenya , Ethiopia , Eritrea , South Sudan , Sudan and Egypt . In particular , the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt and Sudan . Kenneth Anderson Kitchen ( born in 1932 ) is a British Bible scholar , Ancient Near Eastern historian , and Personal and Brunner ___MASK54___ of Egyptology and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology , Classics and Egyptology , University of Liverpool , England . He is one of the leading experts on the ancient Egyptian Ramesside Period ( i . e ., Dynasties 19 - 20 ), and the Third Intermediate Period , as well as ancient Egyptian chronology , having written over 250 books and journal articles on these and other subjects since the mid - 1950s . He has been described by " The Times " as " the very architect of Egyptian chronology ". Egypt (; ', , " Kimi "), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt , is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula . Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast , the Gulf of Aqaba to the east , the Red Sea to the east and south , Sudan to the south , and ___MASK92___ to the west . Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan , and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia , although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with Egypt . It is the world ' s only contiguous Afrasian nation .