If the Egyptian pharaoh Menes somehow had diamond battery technology and a space program, the first dynasty’s spacecraft ...

Diamond batteries aren’t forever, but hey—5,700 years is a pretty good start.

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

The Jewish tradition loves serious play with words. This week’s Torah portion begins with God’s telling Moses, “Go to Pharaoh” (Exodus 10:1) to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go.