Wadj-wer, 'the Great Green', the Egyptian name most scholars read as the Mediterranean, the sea Egypt's ships crossed to Byblos and Alashiya; a minority reading, argued by Alessandra Nibbi and Claude Vandersleyen, holds that the phrase meant not the sea but Egypt’s own waters: the Nile, its marshes, and the lagoons of Lower Egypt.
War, diplomacy, and empire
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