The Canaanites of what later would be named the Canopic distributary (now extinct) of the Nile (for the Greek ship captain Canopus circa 1200 b. c.) built the city of Menouthis named for the Canaanite Sidon’s (Posidon’s) son Mneseus (see Plato’s Atlantis), submerged in Aboukir Bay since the end of the Ice Age (the time of the Exodus), and Canaanites with the Hebrews became known as the Hyksos (“shepherd kings”), during the Ice Age, the Hebrews having built-up the cities of Avaris (later named Rameses) and Pithom, respectively on the Pelusiac distributary (now extinct) of the Nile and on the Wadi Tumilat which flowed to the east from that distributary during the Ice Age through the Bitter Lakes (then freshwater), connecting the Nile to the Red Sea until the days of the Exodus (see Page titled Biblical Climate Change).