Khor (other)

Khor (also ''Hurru'', ''Kharu'') is the second, later name used by ancient Egyptians after using Retjenu in designating the wider Syria (region), Syrian region, where speakers of Canaanite languages lived. It was long an outpost of ancient Egypt and is explicitly mentioned in the Great Hymn to the Aten as a geographic region, along with the kingdoms of Kingdom of Kush, Kush and Egypt. Based on the Amarna letters, it is plausible that Khor is a Middle Egyptian reference to Canaan.

This word spelled as ''Hurru'' or ''Kharru'' is also used on the Merneptah Stele. In this inscription,

Taharqa, List of monarchs of Kush, Tarqo of Kush and pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, claimed to conquer this territory as attested by the "list of conquered Asiatic principalities" from the Precinct of Mut, Mut temple at Karnak, as well as in Sanam, Sudan , Sanam temple inscriptions. Taharqa disputed this region with Sennacherib of Neo-Assyrian Empire , Assyria.

The Egyption Story of Wenamun refers to a location named ''Kharu''. According to Alessandra Nibbi, the expression "the great ''wikt:ym#Egyptian, ym'' of Kharu" is often connected to the Mediterranean sea. But she was trying to reinterpret this and other associated geographical names and to tie them to other locations.A. Nibbi
The City of Dor and Wenamun
Discussions in Egyptology 35 (1996), 76-95

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Extra-biblical references to Canaan
New Kingdom of Egypt
Geography of ancient Egypt
Ancient Lebanon