The answer to the title’s question will likely cause many readers to ask themselves, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
Tag: Second Intermediate Period
Were Babylonian King Hammurabi and Egyptian Pharaoh Khyan Contemporary Monarchs?
Several lines of evidence argue that they were. The expression “contemporary monarchs” means they simultaneously ruled their respective countries. Since
The Thera Eruption and the End of the Egyptian Fifteenth Dynasty
The gigantic eruption of Thera (now called Santorini) was one of human history’s most explosive volcanic events and perhaps the
How Much of the Second Millennium BCE Conventional Middle Eastern Chronology is Correct?
Those kingdoms with relatively abundant chronological data from that millennium include Babylonia, Assyria, and Egypt. Let us begin with Babylonia
Common Sense and the Chronology of the Twelfth Dynasty and the SIP
Once The Six Pillars is published, Egyptologists will face a challenging problem. How will they reassess the chronology of the
Common Sense Versus the Traditional Concept of Egyptian Dynasties
Manetho’s list of Egyptian dynasties continues to confuse scholars to this day. In the eighteenth century CE, many people assumed