Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

Philistines of Crete   Part Two: Crete aligned with Egypt         “The wealth of pottery, sculpture and jewellery that has been found in Crete was so old that no one could accurately date it, according to Professor [Stylianos] Alexiou. So many Minoan artefacts are in Egypt that experts are best able to date Cretan finds by comparing them to Egyptian ones, whose chronology is better understood”.   Gavin Menzies       Gavin Menzies ( The Lost Empire of Atlantis : History's Greatest Mystery Revealed (HarperCollins, 2011), writing of the “highly prized”, distinctive Cretan pottery (pp. 41-44), will tell of how Egyptian chronology is the yardstick for dating Cretan pottery:   The pottery told us loud and clearly that the Minoans [sic] had traded much more than foodstuffs and olive oil. The Kamares designs are dramatic, a modern-looking black and red, and the pottery was first excavated here [Kamares cave] in the ea

    by   Damien F. Mackey         A similar problem arises with the so-called Fifth Dynasty, with four of its supposed six sun temples undiscovered.         A different approach is obviously needed when, after decades or more of searching, a famous ancient capital city such as Akkad (Agade) cannot be found; nor the tombs of virtually an entire dynasty (Egyptian Second ); nor four whole sun temples (Egyptian Fifth ).   The Second Dynasty of Egypt, however - whose beginning I would re-date to about a millennium later than does the conventional model - appears to overlap, in great part, with (according to what I have already tentatively determined) the very beginnings of Egyptian dynastic history.    That the Second Dynasty may be, to a great extent at least, a duplication of the First Dynasty, may be supported by the disturbing (for Egyptologists) non-existence of Second Dynasty burials (Miroslav Verner, Abusir, p. 16. My emph