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According to Eusebius ' Chronicon, Manetho had suggested that the great age of antiquity in which the later Egyptians boasted had actually preceded the flood, and that they were really descended from Mizraim, who settled there anew.

A similar story is related by medieval Islamic historians such as Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, the Egyptian Ibn Abd-el-Hakem, and the Persians al-Tabari and Muhammad Khwandamir, stating that the pyramids, etc.

had been built by the wicked races before the deluge, but that Noah's descendant Mizraim ( Masar or Mesr ) was entrusted with reoccupying the region afterward.

The Islamic accounts also make Masar the son of a Bansar or Beisar and grandson of Ham, rather than a direct son of Ham, and add that he lived to the age of 700.

Some scholars think it likely that Mizraim is a dual form of the word Misr meaning " land ", and was translated literally into Ancient Egyptian as Ta-Wy ( the Two Lands ) by early pharaohs at Thebes, who later founded the Middle Kingdom.