How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History

Science Daily ^ | 10-27-2007 | Cornell University

[Renfield]

The bay rims are aeolian, and postdate the bays. Bay rims are post-Younger-Dryas.

[aruanan]

What would be a real scream is if they started finding overlaps with some of the petrified forests in the American West.

[CholeraJoe]

Ancient wood?

I...er...resemble that remark.

[blam]

"What would be a real scream is if they started finding overlaps with some of the petrified forests in the American West."

I believe the petrified forests run into the millions of years old.

[blam]

"This supports Mike Baillie's claim of 1620 BC."

Yup.

Exodus To Arthur

[blam]

Moses' Comet

[aruanan]

I believe the petrified forests run into the millions of years old.

Yes, but you know how many things people believe that turn out to be quite different in reality and it was their belief that limited their ability to see anything different or to even try to see anything different.

On another note, it was cool to see how this relates to Baille's dating of Exodus.

[David]

“Similar techniques used on wood buried beneath volcanic ash allowed Manning and others to date the Santorini volcanic eruption, one of the largest in the last 10,000 years, as most likely occurring in the late 17th century B.C., 100 years earlier than previously believed. “

Given that Santorini has been linked to the miracles in Exodus, wonder how this new time line fits in with Biblical scholars?

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Bible date for Exodus around 1461 BC; Santorini, around 1628 BC.

[blam]

"Given that Santorini has been linked to the miracles in Exodus, wonder how this new time line fits in with Biblical scholars?"

Sunkenciv?

[wideminded]

Personally, I'm an atheist.

Me too. But I think there are much worse examples of PC to worry about. Besides, BCE is pretty close to BC.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Glad it’s already been posted. That reminds me, I’ve got to read my own mail to you.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917591/posts?page=34#34

[SunkenCiv]

This is a re-ping for an old topic. I included those who posted in this:

• Nebra sky disk discarded because of volcanic ash, scientists say

[SunkenCiv]

King Hammurabi is the best known of the early monarchs of ancient times... belonged to the First BabyIonian Dynasty which came to an end, under circumstances shrouded in mystery, some three or four generations after Hammurabi. For the next several centuries, the land was in the domain of a people known as the Kassites. They left few examples of art and hardly any literary works -- theirs was an age comparable to and contemporaneous with that of the Hyksos in Egypt, and various surmises were made as to the identity of the two peoples. A cartouche of the Hyksos king Khyan was even found in Babylonia and another in Anatolia, a possible indication of the extent of the power and influence wielded by the Hyksos. Until a few decades ago, the reign of Hammurabi was dated to around the year 2100 before the present era... At Platanos on Crete, a seal of the Hammurabi type was discovered in a tomb together with Middle Minoan pottery of a kind associated at other sites with objects of the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty, more exactly, of its earlier part. This is regarded as proof that these two dynasties were contemporaneous... however... At Mari on the central Euphrates, among other rich material, a cuneiform tablet was found which established that Hammurabi of Babylonia and King Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria were contemporaries. An oath was sworn by the life of these two kings in the tenth year of Hammurabi, The finds at Mari "proved conclusively that Hammurabi came to the throne in Babylonia after the accession of Shamshi-Adad I in Assyria"... The Khorsabad list ends in the tenth year of Assur-Nerari V, which is computed to have been -745... the first year of Shamshi-Adad is calculated to have been -1726 and his last year -1694... it reduced the time of Hammurabi from the twenty-first century to the beginning of the seventeenth century... "a puzzling chronological discrepancy", which could only be resolved by making Hammurabi later than Amenemhet I of the Twelfth Dynasty... If Hammurabi reigned at the time allotted to him by the finds at Mari and Khorsabad -- but according to the finds at Platanos was a contemporary of the Egyptian kings of the early Twelfth Dynasty -- then that dynasty must have started at a time when, according to the accepted chronology, it had already come to its end. In conventionally-written history, by -1680 not only the Twelfth Dynasty, but also the Thirteenth, or the last of the Middle Kingdom, had expired.

[Immanuel Velikovsky, Hammurabi and the Revised Chronology]