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First we would like to say `Welcome' to our visitors from around the world. We have received contacts from Argentina(ar), American Samoa(as), Antigua(ag), Australia(au), Austria(at), Bahamas(bs), Bahrain(bh), Belgium(be), Belize(bz), Bolivia(bo), Botswana(bw), Brazil(br), Bulgaria(bg), Canada(ca), Chile(cl), China(cn), Cook Islands(ck), Costa Rica(cr), Croatia(hr), Cuba(cu), Czechoslowakia(cz,cs), Denmark(dk), Dominican Republic(do), Ecuador(ec), Egypt(eg), Estonia(ee), Ethiopia(et), Finnland(fi), France(fr), Germany(de), Greece(gr), Guyana(gy), Holland(nl), Honduras(hn), Hungary(hu), Iceland(is), India(in), Indonesia(id), Ireland(ie), Israel(il), Italy(it), Ivory Coast(ci), Japan(jp), Jordan(jo), Kazakhstan(kz), Kenya(ke), Korea(kr), Kuwait(kw), Latvia(lv), Libya(ly), Lithuania(lt), Luxemburg(lu), Malaysia(my), Malta(mt), Mauritius(mu), Mexico(mx), Morocco(ma), Nepal(np), Netherlands(nl), New Zealand(nz), Nicaragua(ni), Nigeria(ng), Norway(no), Papua New Guinea(pg), Paraguay(py), Peru(pe), Poland(pl), Portugal(pt), Puerto Rico(pr), Qatar(qa), Romania(ro), Russia(ru), Saint Helena(sh), Saudi Arabia(sa), Singapore(sg), Slovakia(sk), Slovania(si), Spain(es), Sri Lanka(lk), Sweden(se), Switzerland(ch), Taiwan(tw), Tanzania(tz), Thailand(th), Trinidad & Tobago(tt), Turkey(tr), Uganda(ug), Ukrainian Republic(ua), United Arab Emirates(ae), United Kingdom(uk), the United States of America, Uzbekistan(uz), South Africa(za), Venezuela(ve), Vietnam(vn), Virgin Isalnds(vi), Zambia(zm), Zimbabwe(zw) and it keeps growing. Hope you enjoy your stay! Thank you very much and come visit us again for we continually update our files! The order of the Egyptian dynasties as we find them today took shape long before archaeology became a university discipline and long before people were able to read hieroglyphic writings. Already during the Middle Ages some writers placed certain kings into time slots based on their own understanding and without any corroborating evidence. | To read papers in larger print use your MS Explorer `View', `Text Size' buttons. |
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Later historians had only these beginning chronologies, the biblical accounts and those of the old authors to help guide them. But ancient history and archaeology grew up in an intellectual environment antagonistic to the Hebrew scriptures. It was probably a good idea to try and develop the chronology of the ancient world without being too dependent on the scriptural account. But things could come out only two ways, the right way, or the wrong way. If historians would hit it off on their first try and come up with the true historical sequence of ancient world personalities and the events that tie them together, how wonderful that would be, but if they would, perhaps innocently, start on a wrong path and misplace and mismatch personalities and events and yet somehow be able to fit many things together, now, that would be a definite problem. What are the chances for historians to have hit it off correctly the first time? Well, they explored, dug, juggled, wrote and criticized each other for quite a while but eventually the scholars, excavation experts, professors and knowledgeable authorities came to a kind of consensus on how to put it all together. Not without problems of course but offering the best alternative for a box full of not so good choices. That is what got into our history books and is advertised as true ancient history of the Bible lands - the consensus chronology is what we read about everywhere. But we know the early leading experts began to follow an erroneous chronology way back then. That is what we do here - show how history happened when we synchronize the right people and events, taking care to avoid duplications and placing people into the proper historical background. While we are doing that, we also discover that the old authors, and the Hebrew scriptures, weren't all that bad in the history they had been telling all along but that the story of us moderns may be at fault. We are then an ancient sources friendly website, including the Bible. In that way we encourage religious schools to inform their teachers and students to take a look and discuss these topics. We welcome any suggestions to improve our presentations and may, if necassary, update our files to the newest insights. Suggested required reading for certain study programs: Toledoth, The Old Kingdom and Historical Grids.
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