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The "Complaints of Khakheperraseneb", also called the "Lamentations of Khakheperraseneb", is an ancient Egyptian text from the end of the First Intermediate Period or the beginning of the Middle Kingdom. It was on a writing board which suggests it was regarded as a text for school and is currently held in the British Museum.
Khakheperraseneb (fl. c. 1900 BC) (also transliterated as Khakheperresenb, [1] [2] Khakheperrē-sonb, [3] Khakheperre-sonb [4]) was an Egyptian scribe who lived during the reign of Senusret II, and is the presumed author of Sayings of Khakheperraseneb. [5]
A lament in the Book of Lamentations or in the Psalms, in particular in the Lament/Complaint Psalms of the Tanakh, may be looked at as "a cry of need in a context of crisis when Israel lacks the resources to fend for itself". [8] Another way of looking at it is all the more basic: laments simply being "appeals for divine help in distress". [9]
In Nubia, two Nile Level Records with the prenomen Sekhemkare are also attributable to him, one from Askut and dated to his Year 3, [7] and the other from Semna dated to his Year 4. [3] Less certain is a much damaged record from Semna dated to a year 5 that may belong to Sekhemkare.
Senusret II or Sesostris II was the fourth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. His pyramid was constructed at El-Lahun.Senusret II took a great deal of interest in the Faiyum oasis region and began work on an extensive irrigation system from Bahr Yussef through to Lake Moeris through the construction of a dike at El-Lahun and the addition of a network of drainage canals.
Around 160,000 tents, 150,000 toilets and a 776-mile (1,249-kilometer) drinking water pipeline have been installed at a temporary tent city covering 4,000 hectares, roughly the size of 7,500 ...
[4]: 1 The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explained through divine intervention and wrote in the lament that the gods, "An, Enlil, Enki and Ninmah decided [Ur's] fate". [5]: 117 The Lament for Eridu. Unlike Ur or Akkad we don't have a good idea of how Eridu actually fell, or when other than in the Early Dynastic ...
Pope Francis, surrounded by the shells of destroyed churches, leads a prayer for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, in Mosul, Iraq, once the de-facto capital of ISIS, on March 7, 2021.