Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

by Damien F. Mackey Previously, and hopefully, I have lain the foundations for linking Egypt’s pyramid-building Fourth Dynasty with the Sixth Dynasty, and indeed with the Twelfth Dynasty (to be considered later). Linking the 4th, 6th … dynasties? We may be able to trace the rise of the 4th dynasty’s Khufu (Cheops) - whose full name was Khnum-khuefui (meaning ‘Khnum is protecting me’) - to the 6th dynasty, to the wealthy noble (recalling that the founding 12th dynasty pharaoh “had no royal blood”) from Abydos in the south, called Khui. An abbreviation of Khuefui? This Khui had a daughter called Ankhenesmerire, in whose name are contained all the elements of Mer-es-ankh, the first part of which, Meres, accords phonetically with the name Eusebius (following Artapanus) gave for the Egyptian foster-mother of Moses, “Merris”. “Merris, the wife of Chenephres, King of Upper Egypt; being childless, she pretended to have given birth to [Moses] and brought him up as her own child. (...

by Damien F. Mackey Should we have been considering Ptahhotep as Moses? If, as posited in my recent article: Moses in Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty (3) Moses in Egypt's Fourth Dynasty Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, revised, fits promisingly as being the dynastic period of rule from the approximate childhood of Moses through to his sojourn in Midian, then, chronologically, the Fifth Dynasty, which supposedly followed the Fourth, ought to have coincided with the return to Egypt by Moses, and with the Plagues, and, finally, with the Exodus. None of this is at all evident during the Fifth Dynasty, however, which was, as we have learned in my article: Some Fourth and Fifth Dynasty similarities (5) Some Fourth and Fifth Dynasty similarities a phase of intense building and supposed innovations – not one of extreme chaos. Now, with the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh, Menkaure, identified with the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh (probably Menkauhor), Sahure (and also as the dynastic founding “new...

by Damien F. Mackey One may find it very hard to imagine that a ruler of the significance of Djedkare Isesi (Assa), whose reign may have been as long as forty years, has only one image of which to boast. Following on from my very brief article: Shalmaneser V and Nebuchednezzar were ‘camera-shy’? (3) Shalmaneser V and king Nebuchednezzar were 'camera-shy'? | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu I have come across two other powerful rulers of substance, for whom we have, in both cases, only the one statue. These two are Djedkare Isesi of Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty, and Ashurnasirpal, so-called II, of Assyria. Regarding the seriously megalomaniacal Assyrian king, Ashurnasirpal, I expressed my great surprise in: De-coding Jonah (3) De-coding Jonah as follows: Kings unnecessarily duplicated I was very greatly surprised to read the following piece of information as provided by Mattias Karlsson regarding the almost total lack of statuary depicting the, albeit megalomania...

by Damien F. Mackey “It is likely that Iny travelled to Anatoly by land before Weni led several mighty military expeditions by land and sea against “native” countries, which were not specified in his biographical inscription, but the word “native” … is the same used for people to be brought to Egypt from Hundašša”. Alessandro Roccati Upon reading through Alessandro Roccati’s absorbing paper: Iny’s Travels (3) Iny's Travels | Alessandro Roccati - Academia.edu finding common purpose in Iny’s adventures, by way of comparison with those of Weni - and throwing in Sinuhe, to boot - it occurred to me that Iny most likely was Weni. The latter, as well as Sinuhe (a semi-fictitious character along the lines of Imhotep at the hands of later scholars), I have already identified as the biblical Moses: Historical Moses may be Weni and Mentuhotep (2) Historical Moses may be Weni and Mentuhotep | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu Since Iny served during the same Sixth Dynasty ...

by Damien F. Mackey “Antiochus Epiphanes thought nothing was more certain than that he would annihilate the Jewish nation. Julian the Apostate convinced himself that it was already in his power to uproot the Christian religion”. Herman J. Selderhuis (ed.) This is a quote from the book, Psalms 1-72 (p. 14). If Julian ‘the Apostate’ bears comparison, at least to some extent, with the emperor Hadrian: “… Julian … and Hadrian were both 'full of zeal for idolatry', 'superstitious […] astrologers wanting to know everything, so constantly inquisitive as to be accused of magic'.” then I might expect, also, some useful comparisons of this Julian with emperor Hadrian’s alter ego, king Antiochus IV ‘Epiphanes’, as according to my series: Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ and Emperor Hadrian. Part One: “… a mirror image” https://www.academia.edu/32734925/Antiochus_Epiphanes_and_Emperor_Hadrian._Part_One_a_mirror_image_ and: Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ and Emperor Hadrian. Part Two...

by Damien F. Mackey But the fact was that Shalmaneser was nowhere to be found in the El Amarna archive, at least under that Assyrian name. Instead, the king of Assyria in El Amarna was one “Ashuruballit”. Introduction For those faithfully following the revision of history as set out by the insightful scholar, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, in Ages in Chaos (I, 1952), especially back in the late 1970’s, a seemingly impenetrable obstacle loomed for them with regard to the re-location of the El-Amarna (EA) history from the c. C14th BC, where the history books situated it, to the mid-C9th BC, where Dr. Velikovsky had re-set it. The obstacle was the great Assyrian king, SHALMANESER III. For, if EA belonged to the mid-C9th BC, then one ought to encounter there the long-reigning Shalmaneser III, who straddled this era (c. 860-825 BC, conventional dating). But the fact was that Shalmaneser was nowhere to be found in the EA archive, at least under that Assyrian name. Instead, the...

by Damien F. Mackey Herb Storck concluded the first part of his study by claiming that: “Nine of the 17 tent-dwelling [Assyrian King List] kings can reasonably be identified with … ancestors of Hammurapi. This would appear to be sufficient to establish that these two genealogies drew upon a common ‘Amorite’ tradition”. Abrahamic Connections Herb Storck has shown, in an important article “The Early Assyrian King List ... and the ‘Greater Amorite’ Tradition” (Proc. of the 3rd Seminar of Catastrophism and Ancient History, C and AH Press, Toronto, 1986, p. 43), that there is a genealogical link among: (i) Abraham; (ii) the genealogy of king Hammurabi; and (iii) the Assyrian King List. Storck commenced his article with the following explanation: The Assyrian Kinglist (AKL) is one of the most important chronographic texts ever uncovered. Initially it was thought to represent a long unbroken tradition of rulership over Assyria. A closer look at the AKL by Benno Landsberger...