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In the sixties of the last century, in el-Arish, a town on the border between Egypt and Palestine, the attention of a traveler was attracted to a shrine (naos) of black granite inscribed with hieroglyphics over all its surfaces. It was used by the Arabs of the locality as a cattle trough... Sometime during the [20th] century the stone was brought to the Museum of Ismailia and a new attempt to translate the text was undertaken... The march of the pharaoh with his hosts is related amidst the description of the great upheaval in the residence and the tempest that made the land dark. He arrived at a place designated by name: ...this place called Pi-Kharoti... The explanation of the translator of the text concerning this geographical designation "Pi-Kharoti is: "... is not known except in this example." ... Pi-Kharoti is Pi-Khiroth of the Hebrew text. It is the same place. It is the same pursuit. It is erroneous to say that the name is met nowhere else except on the shrine... The inscription on the shrine at el-Arish says that the name of the pharaoh who perished in the whirlpool was Thom or Thoum. It is of interest that Pi-Thom means "the abode of Thom." Pithom was one of the two cities built by the Israelite slaves for the Pharaoh of Oppression. In Manetho, the pharaoh in whose days the "blast of heavenly displeasure" fell upon Egypt, preceding the invasion of the Hyksos, is called Tutimaeus or Timaios. The question, centuries or even millennia old, as to where the Sea of Passage was, can be solved with the help of the inscription on the shrine. On the basis of certain indications in the text, Pi-ha-Khiroth, where the events took place, was on the way from Memphis to Pisoped. [Immanuel Velikovsky, "Ages In Chaos" (1952), pp 39&44]