[SunkenCiv]

Saw this in the theater (IMAX, very nice); the first half or so made me a bit impatient but is likely to build interest for those unfamiliar with chronology revision. David Rohl is featured, and his revision is the one being examined here. Rohl and Peter James tried to develop the Glasgow Chronology as a oh-why-not alternative to Velikovsky's Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History (the basis for his Ages In Chaos series; the GC failed (because it wasn't Velikovsky's chronology, which is basically correct, and possibly Rohl and James just didn't get along, both of them come off as impossibly arrogant). Where Rohl agrees with Velikovsky, he is correct, otherwise, no.

this is the weekly Digest ping topic.

• Human Remains In Ancient Jar A Mystery [FR]
• The Sequence of Dynasties [the V-archive]

[Monkey Face]

Wow. Food for thought, for sure.

[gleeaikin]

Without reading any of this let me set out my theories. I have been researching volcanoes and Egypt for a few years. Pillar of Fire by night, pillar of smoke by day. Sounds like a volcano to me. Too major volcanic events—Thera/Santorini, perhaps 1625; Mt. Etna around 1500 give or take 50 years. Possible ash falls in northern Africa, or further south over the Nile river. Red tide from pfisteria, frogs killed, flies in droves, people have skin infections, and are killed by much dead matter in their drinking water, etc. etc. There are volcanic influences and lava flows in western Saudi Arabia. That is the scientific part. The religious human part is another story for another time. Got to go to bed now.