The name of the Asian river to which the borders of northern Egypt reached.

This river is the Euphrates, other options are not suitable, since there are simply no large ones in that arid region of the Middle East. However, the possessions of Egypt did not always reach the Euphrates, for example, under Pharaoh Cheops in the XXVI century BC, they were approximately within the limits of modern Egypt, and the maximum advance to the northeast occurred under Pharaoh Thutmose III, that is, in the 15th century BC. era. The Egyptians could not go beyond the Euphrates, their army was too weak for such campaigns, and the opponents in those parts (the Hittites) were quite strong.