Was Shoshenq a Berber?
Shoshenq I (r. c. 943–921 or 909 BCE), Egyptian pharaoh, “Great Chief of the Meshwesh Chief of Chiefs,” was the Libyco-Berber founder of the Twenty-Second Dynasty (c. … 1295–1069 BCE), although the Hellenistic Egyptian historian Manetho (third century BCE) places the dynastic origin in the delta at Bubastis. Where is Shoshenq from? Sheshonk I, also…