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176 pages of results. 401. The City of the Sun. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... where scribes were trained for their future jobs and officers were taught the art of administration. Priests' houses were near the temple, and clerks' dwellings near their offices. Farther to the east were stores, police quarters, ... Red Sea. Aklmaton had steles carved in the rock of the cliffs, on the south, north, and east, as boundary marks: "As my father the Aten liveth, I will make Akhetaten for the Aten my ... newly adopted name. He had chosen the site for this city halfway between Thebes and Memphis, downstream on the eastern bank of the Nile. The cliffs of the highland of the eastern desert recede from the river, leaving a ...
... same order, leading to the supposition that there has been a kind of periodical recurrence of the same, or nearly the same, directions of these elevations. These parallel directions of mountain building are worldwide. Taking the Pyrenees as ... of Syria, the Erz-Gebirge of Saxony, the Atlas Range of North-West Africa, many of the mountains on the East Coast of America, the Alleghany Mountains of North America, the Cambrians, and many of the Highlands of Scotland ... Wales, Cornwall, and South-West Ireland. Says Lyell, of Elie de Beaumont's Parallelism theory: "The principal chain of the Alps, differing in age and direction from the Pyrenees, is parallel to the Sierra Morena, the ...
403. Radiocarbon Dates for the Eighteenth Dynasty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... regarding C14 dating (6 ), and particularly the applicability of the Suess calibration based on Californian bristlecone pines to Near Eastern samples (7 ), the tests must include comparative material from other sites in the Near East whose dating ... agreed upon by both chronologies. Velikovsky has suggested a series of tests on the ivories of Tutankhamun's tomb, using those from Shalmaneser III's fort near Nimrud as a control (8 ). Surely it is time that some enterprising C14 ... took up this challenge and performed the required tests? The scientists involved will, one hopes, accept the task with an enquiring and open mind, one free from the question of "vested interests" in maintaining the status quo ...
404. A New Interpretation of the Assyrian King List [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Sumerian Kinglist. The abbreviation Syn. K. L. is recommended. Pritchard is the overall editor of Ancient Near Eastern Texts (ANET). The section that deals with the AKL was contributed by A. Leo Oppenheim. ... maru) or heir (aplu) express a physical relationship in the Assyrian Kinglist? As with many Ancient Near East issues the question is many-sided and points to more than one possible answer.11 The answer to this basic question ... tied up with the question of what the Assyrian Kinglist was intended to be. Is it a witness to the dynastic principle in Assyria? Is it a political charter? Does it promote a religious program? Is it all of ...
405. Temples And Obelisks, Part 2 Mars Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... , and so measuring the length of the days and nights." There then follows this remark: "For nearly the last thirty years, however, the observations derived from this dial have been found not to agree: whether ... of the sun on the days of the vernal and autumnal equino xes, when the sun rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west. The Tractate Erubin of the Jerusalem Talmud2 records "the surprising fact"3 ... Jerusalem was so built that on the two equinoctial days the first rays of the rising sun shone directly through the eastern gate; the eastern gate was kept clos ed during the year, but was opened on these two days for ...
406. Darkness and the Deep [Journals] [Aeon]
... .A . Wilson, "Egyptian Myths, Tales and Mortuary Texts," in J. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, 1969), p.3 . 20. E. ... Genesis (Chicago, 1942), p.10; M. Vieyra, "Empires of the Ancient Near East: The Hymns of Creation," Larousse World Mythology (London, 1972), p.65. 51 ... G. Michanowsky, The Once and Future Star (N .Y ., 1977), p.49. 52. A. Heidel, op. cit., p.84. 53. Again, I am ...
407. The Stratigraphical Chronology of Ancient Israel [Journals] [Aeon]
... therefore, seems to provide a more convincing environment for these powerful kings. (18) The impressive achievements of nearly 150 years of modern archaeology in the ancient Near East seem to have debunked Israel's biblical history from Abraham to the ... Exile, which likewise is burdened with some big question marks (see Section II below). The opposing parties are well entrenched. One side defends the biblical period from ca. 2100 (birth of the patriarch in Ur of ... Palestine was the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt in the mid-sixteenth century bce. The Hyksos princes fled from the Eastern Delta of Egypt to Southern Palestine; the Egyptians followed them there and put them under siege in the city of ...
408. Plate Tectonics and Catastrophe Theory [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... of positive value p/2-a. The minimizing frame Tm(q ), at a point q of OL near 0, has a non-zero (negative) angular velocity with respect to TD = OxY. If the threshold ( ... the interior of the globe, under the crust; the often reported fact that most of the subduction zones face east (on their convex side) militates in favour of the existence of such differential rotatlon. (The more liquid ... of the arc may not cover much more than 90o, except for the Indonesia arc, which has an atypical Eastern boundary. In the same way, the Andean subduction zone is not typical, as the volcanic activity line is ...
409. Is Is Illig Right, and and AD Chronology Wrong? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... accepted in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds? The acceptance of the western system outside of western Europe does not pose nearly as great a problem as may initially appear. The Byzantines, according to Illig, were almost as much confused ... the nations of western Europe. This seemed in its very essence improbable. Even worse was the evidence from the east. The Byzantine and Islamic worlds did not, in any sense, experience a dark age' or collapse of ... precisely with the chronology promoted by Otto III, such correspondence would have been systematically enforced when the Crusaders conquered the eastern Empire in 1204. Even before the Latin invasion, the Byzantine world had been reduced to a small and insignificant ...
410. The Ring About The Earth at 2300 BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in space would remain constant. This means that the same stars and constellations would always be seen in the sky near the ring. In general, the ring would appear to travel across the sky along with the stars at night ... course, disappeared but their residual mythology remains. There is general agreement that the significant mythological literature in the Middle East originated in the last centuries of the third millennium BC. Kirk [2 ] addresses the mythology of the Sumerians ... Figure 4A, the ring first appears on the horizon in the east, moves until it extends all along the eastern horizon and then begins to swing around to a northeast to southwest direction. Figure 4B starts where Figure 4A leaves ...
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