The Pyramid Age, Ages in Alignment Series

192 Pages·2007·1.37 MB·English

by  Emmet Sweeney

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T P a
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Vol. 2 in the series
Ages in Alignment
Emmet Sweeney
Algora Publishing
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ISBN-13: 978-0-87586-566-9 (trade paper)
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Sweeney, Emmet John.
The Pyramid Age / Emmet Sweeney.
p. cm. — (Ages in alignment ; v. 2)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-87586-566-9 (trade paper: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-87586-567-6 (hard
cover: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-87586-568-3 (ebook) 1. Egypt—History—To 332 B.C. 2.
Egypt—History—Errors, inventions, etc. I. Title.
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Table of ConTenTs
inTroduCTion 1
ChaPTer 1. Walls raised by The hands of gianTs 7
Glimpses of a Bygone Age 7
A Worldwide Phenomenon 8
The Dragon of Chaos 11
Dark Secrets of the Pyramids 15
The Cult of the Phoenix 19
The Theory of Catastrophes 22
An Age of Megaliths and Heroes 26
ChaPTer 2. god-like kings of old 29
The Demise of Early Dynastic Egypt 29
The Reign of Sneferu 34
Cheops and His Successors 37
The Kings of Elephantine 40
The Chronology of Herodotus 43
The Ethiopian Pyramid-Builders 45
Confused Epochs 47
ChaPTer 3. When Was The Pyramid age? 51
Science and Technology of the Pyramid-Builders 51
Phoenicia and Egypt during the Pyramid Age 56
Religion of the Pyramid Age 58
The Pyramid Age
Biblical Parallels 62
Echoes of the Old Kingdom 65
ChaPTer 4. anCienT hisTory in Chaos 69
How Egyptian Chronology was formulated 69
Stratigraphy and Chronology 75
The Triplication of Ancient History 81
Radiocarbon Dating 84
Dendrochronology 88
Stone, Bronze and Iron 90
ChaPTer 5. The assyrian ConquesT 97
The Asiatic Dynasty 97
Akkadians, Hyksos and Assyrians 100
The ‘Shepherd Kings’ of Mesopotamia 104
Pyramid-Builders and Ziggurat-Builders 106
The Middle Kingdom 109
The Thirteenth Dynasty 113
Political Fragmentation in Egypt 115
ChaPTer 6. The Wandering Tribes of israel 119
Moses and His World 119
Ra-Atum and Yahweh 121
“Exodus” in the Pyramid Texts 123
Hercules of Israel 125
The Age of the Judges 127
The Philistine-Assyrian Alliance 129
ChaPTer 7. heroiC age greeCe 133
The Mycenaean World 133
The Pyramids of Greece 135
Pelops and the Trojan Campaign 136
Menelaus in Egypt 140
Mopsus 143
ePilogue 147
aPPendix 151
revised Chronology 161
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