Once The Six Pillars is published, Egyptologists will face a challenging problem. How will they reassess the chronology of the
Manetho’s list of Egyptian dynasties continues to confuse scholars to this day. In the eighteenth century CE, many people assumed
A previous post explained why we can be confident that sculpted reliefs on Babylonian kudurrus (boundary stones) represent celestial events
Anciently recorded astronomical events greatly aid in reconstructing historical timelines, but only if they are unambiguous enough to be positively
One researcher wrote, ‘We should trust that ancient chronological record keepers were correct and accept the details in their documents
During the Egyptian “Old Kingdom” period, at least from the Second Dynasty through the Sixth, officials kept track of the
The incomplete illustration above contains some prominent astronomical symbols. It includes a scorpion, a representation of Scorpius constellation. The picture
Would you believe a modern scholar’s interpretation of an ancient custom that seems utterly contrary to that ancient community’s benefit
The Amarna letters are a unique collection of correspondence between Egyptian royalty and the pharaohs’ vassal “mayors” in the Levant
The date of the Thera eruption is one of several critical pieces of evidence in ancient Middle Eastern chronology, and
