Wadi Tumilat (Old Egyptian Tjeku/Tscheku/Tju/Tschu) is the 50-kilometre-long (31 mi) dry river valley (wadi) to the east of the Nile Delta. In prehistory, it was a distributary of the Nile. It starts near the modern town of Zagazig and the ancient town of Bubastis and goes east to the area of modern Ismaïlia.
In ancient times, this was a major communication artery for caravan trade between Egypt and points to the east. The Canal of the Pharaohs was built there. A little water still flows along the wadi.[1] The current Sweet Water Canal also flows along the wadi.
The Arabic name "Wadi Tumilat" is believed to reflect the existence in the area, in ancient times, of an important temple of the god Atum (Old Egyptian pr-itm, 'House of Atum', changed over time into 'Tumilat', as well as into 'Pithom').[2]
The old name of the valley is Wadi as-Sadir (Arabic: وادي السدير), which is also "the land of Goshen" in the Arabic translation of the Pentateuch.[3]
^Egypt’s Storied Wadi Tumilat GeoCurrents website
^James K. Hoffmeier, Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN 0198035403
^Al-Maqrīzī. Book of Exhortations and Useful Lessons in Dealing with Topography and Historical Remains. Translated by Stowasser, Karl. Hans A. Stowasser. p. 233.
WadiTumilat (Old Egyptian Tjeku/Tscheku/Tju/Tschu) is the 50-kilometre-long (31 mi) dry river valley (wadi) to the east of the Nile Delta. In prehistory...
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leading into a dry river valley east of the Nile River Delta named WadiTumilat. (It is said that in ancient times the Red Sea reached northward to the...
control, silting and changing relief. One such defunct distributary is WadiTumilat. The Suez Canal is east of the delta and enters the coastal Lake Manzala...
19th dynasty capital Per-Ramesses, and Succoth with Tell el-Maskhuta in WadiTumilat, the biblical Land of Goshen. From Succoth, the Israelites travel to...
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inscription from Petra (95 BC), the dedication to the goddess al-Kutbay from WadiTumilat (77 BC) and the inscription of Rabbel I from Petra (66 BC). The earliest...
south of Judaea and east of the Nile Delta, and the approach of the WādīṬumīlāt, where the Qedarites acted as a garrison which protected the local border...
of Near Eastern Studies, 53, 195–203. Redmount, Carol A. (1995). "The WadiTumilat and the 'Canal of the Pharaohs'." Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 54...
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Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Egyptian on five monuments erected in WadiTumilat, commemorating the opening of a canal between the Nile and the Bitter...
the Protodynastic to Early Dynastic cemetery at Kafr Hassan Dawood, WadiTumilat, East Delta, Egypt", in Midant-Reynes, B.; Tristant, Y. (eds.), Egypt...
Chronicles by Philip Chapman Barker. p447–448 Redmount, Carol A. "The WadiTumilat and the "Canal of the Pharaohs"" Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol...
places mentioned in Wenamun, assuming that Wenamun journeyed through the wadiTumilat to lake Timsah. Although her conclusions have so far not been accepted...
unearthed by Flinders Petrie at Tell el-Retabah, a location along the WadiTumilat in the eastern Delta; this weight is now exhibited at the Petrie Museum...
BC, Essarhadon sent a large military force to Egypt, possibly via the WadiTumilat but was defeated by the Egyptians under Pemu, then ruler of Heliopolis...
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