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I've heard people say Senwosret colonized Athens and founded Greece. Any feedback on this?
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I've just heard rumors about one Senwosret partaking an imperialist venturing into Greece, but nothing in way of tangible evidence.
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Herodotus cited a story told by Egyptian priests about a Pharaoh Sesostris (also Sesostris I and Senwosret I) , who once led an army northward through Syria and Turkey all the way to Colchis, westward across Southern Russia, and then south again through Romania, until he reached Bulgaria and the Eastern part of Greece. Sesostris then returned home the same way he came, leaving colonists behind at the Colchian river Phasis. Herodotus cautioned the reader that much of this story came second hand via Egyptian priests, but also noted that the Colchians were commonly known to be Egyptian colonists According to Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus (who calls him Sesoösis), and Strabo, he conquered the whole world, even Scythia and Ethiopia, divided Egypt into administrative districts or nomes, was a great law-giver, and introduced a caste system into Egypt and the worship of Serapis. Herodotus claims Sesostris was the father of the blind king Pheron, who was less warlike than his father.
"For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others." Herodotus 2.104 Statue of Pharaoh Sesostris I (or Senwosret I). Detail. Limestone, H192 cm, 12th Dynasty. From the Temple of Senwosret I, El-Lisht, Egypt. Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.
Pharaoh Sesostris II (or Senwosret II)
Pharaoh Sesostris III (or Senwosret III)
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correction, photo 1 and 2 above are the same Sesostris I
Here's Pharaoh Sesostris II (or Senwosret II)
___________________________________________________ King Senosret III Rule 1878 - 1839 BC.
Pharaoh Sesostris III (or Senwosret III) , Luxor Museum
many of these kings who are numbered as either mislabled on the internet as per what number they are or there is uncertainty on the part of archaeologists also
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