Histories

Now when this EgyptianSesostris (so the priests said) reached +Daphnae [32.183,30.866] (deserted settlement), Ash Sharqiyah, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa Daphnae of +Pelusium (deserted settlement), Shamal Sina', Desert, Egypt, Africa Pelusium on his way home, leading many captives from the peoples whose lands he had subjugated, his brother, whom he had left in charge in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, invited him and his sons to a banquet and then piled wood around the house and set it on fire.

When Sesostris was aware of this, he at once consulted his wife, whom (it was said) he had with him; and she advised him to lay two of his six sons on the fire and make a bridge over the burning so that they could walk over the bodies of the two and escape. This Sesostris did; two of his sons were thus burnt but the rest escaped alive with their father.