{"id":4050,"date":"2010-06-12T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tenehu-and-temehu\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:59:19","slug":"tenehu-and-temehu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tenehu-and-temehu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehenu and Temehu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong><strong>ehenu<\/strong> and <strong>Temehu<\/strong> are terms used\u00a0in the ancient inscriptions of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a>\u00a0when referring to the\u00a0Libyans. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hofmann-ulrich\/\">Ulrich Hofmann<\/a> links them with the predecessors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/berbers\/\">Berbers<\/a> whom he identifies as the people of Atlantis in his recent book, <em>Platons Insel Atlantis<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>161<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> published in German. Similar views are held by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/arecchi-alberto\/\">Alberto Arecchi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/temple-robert\/\">Robert Temple <\/a>discusses<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\"><sup>736<\/sup><\/a><sup>.414]<\/sup> the etymology of \u2018 Ta Tehenu\u2019 which although used to refer to Libya actually means \u2018olive land\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a website<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup>(a)<\/sup> <\/span>which gives an overview of the land of the Temehu from 55 million BC until modern times. In 1983 UNESCO commissioned A.H.S. El-Mosallamy to write a paper on the relationship between the Tehenu and ancient Egypt<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/winters-clyde-ahmad\/\">Clyde Winters<\/a> offered his opinions on the identity of the Tehenu in a 2010 blog<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Libyans controlled North Africa as far as the borders of Egypt and were constantly in conflict with the Egyptians. Plato describes the Atlantean control in North Africa in similar terms, which also fits with the Libyans (Labu) as one of the allies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup>(a)<\/sup> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.temehu.com\/History-of-Libya.htm\">https:\/\/www.temehu.com\/History-of-Libya.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup>(b) <\/sup><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0005\/000577\/057711eb.pdf\">https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0005\/000577\/057711eb.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c) <\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/bafsudralam.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/tehenu-and-meshwesh.html\">http:\/\/bafsudralam.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/tehenu-and-meshwesh.html<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehenu and Temehu are terms used\u00a0in the ancient inscriptions of Egypt\u00a0when referring to the\u00a0Libyans. Ulrich Hofmann links them with the predecessors of the Berbers whom he identifies as the people of Atlantis in his recent book, Platons Insel Atlantis[161] published in German. Similar views are held by Alberto Arecchi. &nbsp; Robert Temple discusses[736.414] the etymology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2730,234,284,105,6101,184,773,60,1537,1536,2612,2092],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-h-s-el-mosallamy","tag-alberto-arecchi","tag-berbers","tag-egypt","tag-labu","tag-libya","tag-robert-temple","tag-sea-peoples","tag-tehenu","tag-temehu","tag-ulrich-hoffman","tag-unesco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64241,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions\/64241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}