Over the past four months, this website has featured 15 posts about how using common sense leads to better solutions
Tag: Astronomical anchoring
Common Sense and the Mari Eponym Chronicle’s Eclipse
Anciently recorded astronomical events greatly aid in reconstructing historical timelines, but only if they are unambiguous enough to be positively
Common Sense and Astronomical Reliefs on Babylonian Boundary Stones
The incomplete illustration above contains some prominent astronomical symbols. It includes a scorpion, a representation of Scorpius constellation. The picture
How Common Sense Helps Determine How Many Years the Amarna Letters Corpus Encompasses
The Amarna letters are a unique collection of correspondence between Egyptian royalty and the pharaohs’ vassal “mayors” in the Levant
Common Sense and Gaps in the Assyrian King List
Archaeological finds at a warehouse and marketing center in Acemhöyük, central Anatolia, from the Assyrian Colony period show that those
The Ironic Accuracy of the Venus Tablets Middle Chronology Model
(Revised 28 March 2024.) The Venus Tablet(s) of Ammi-şaduqa is a collection of records of this planet’s first and last
Why an Astronomical Chronological Model Can Be Irrefutable
Ideally, a chronological model should have abundant historical data to support it. For the Middle Eastern timelines in the second
Why Ancient Chronology is Important
Humans learn by relating new things to facts we already know. We categorize and classify bits of information, which helps