Empire of Thebes Or Ages In Chaos Revisited (Ages in Alignment, Vol 3)

210 Pages·2006·1.47 MB·English

by  Emmet Sweeney

Ancient History / Egypt
Ancient history as we know it is full of voids, puzzles and conflicting the-
ories. Empire of Thebes is the starting point of “Ages in Alignment,” an original- E
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ly researched reconstruction, from the advent of literate civilization to the
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Velikovsky could not solve, and bringing forward a great body of evidence o VOLUME 3
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not even mentioned by Velikovsky which supports his identification of
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Hatshepsut with the Queen of Sheba.
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Velikovsky was rejected by the academic establishment because of a num-
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despite some gaps and incompletions, his books were brilliant works of e
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scholarship with much to recommend them. For decades now various schol-

ars have attempted to solve the enigma. Yet the answer was stunningly sim-
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complete and satisfactory reconstruction of ancient history. This work calls g
for a much more radical shortening of ancient chronology and asserts that e
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Velikovsky ran into a dead end because he placed too much reliance on the
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most fascinating books but he left the story of the demise of Akhnaton’s line
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author shows which foreign power it was who came to the assistance of o
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Tutankhamun’s brother Smenkhare after the latter had been expelled from

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Persians. All of these books reach fairly dramat- e
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line, chronologically — the Empire of Thebes is
where the story begins.
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MPIRE OF HEBES
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Ages In Chaos Revisited

From the series
Ages in Alignment
E T
MPIRE OF HEBES
or
Ages In Chaos Revisited
Emmet Sweeney
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Sweeney, Emmet John.
Empire of Thebes, or, Ages in chaos revisited / Emmet Sweeney.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-87586-479-2 (trade paper: alk. paper)
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1. Egypt--History—New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C. 2. Egypt—History—
Errors, inventions, etc. 3. Middle East—History—To 622. 4. Middle East—
History—Errors, inventions, etc. 5. Velikovsky, Immanuel, 1895-1979 Ages in chaos.
I. Title. II. Title: Empire of Thebes. III. Title: Ages in chaos revisited.
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Front Cover: Colossal Head of Ramesses at Temple of Luxor
Image: © Jose Fuste Raga/Corbis
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Date Photographed: 2006
Date Created: ca. 1304-1237 B.C.
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Acknowledgement
I am indebted to the work of countless historians and scholars of every kind
who have gone before me, but I must especially mention the brilliant insights
provided by Immanuel Velikovsky, whose ideas have delivered to us, at last, the key
to unlock the secrets of antiquity.