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Pompey ‘the Great’ fake

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     Conventional ancient Roman history/chronology needs to be subjected to revisionist scrutiny just as we found to have been the case with ancient Egypt and the Near East. This article will be a continuation of efforts towards trying to determine whether the seemingly impregnable fortress of conventional ancient Roman history is firmly based, or if it, too, might be susceptible to breaches when revisionist pressure is applied.      Introduction   That the received Roman history may not be as formidably secure as may have been thought I hope that I have demonstrated – without initially having considered it to have been necessary – in articles such as:   Rome surprisingly minimal in Bible   (11) Rome surprisingly minimal in Bible   Horrible Histories. Retracting Romans   (12) Horrible Histories. Retracting Romans   Jesus Christ was the Model for some legend...
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King Ahab in El Amarna

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    by Damien F. Mackey     King Ahab, the husband of the notorious Queen Jezebel, was, in my opinion, the troublesome Lab’ayu of El Amarna.       Revisionist choices for Lab’ayu   While revisionists tend to consider El Amarna’s Lab’ayu as being a king of Israel, they differ as to which king he may have been.   David Rohl thought that Lab’ayu might have been King Saul, before the monarchy became divided. A blogger has commented on this: http://anarchic-teapot.net/2013/03/david-rohl-how-to-fail-a-test-of-time/ “The main argument in Rohl’s book is that Labayu, a Hapiru/’Apiru ( no , the name is not related to the name Hebrew) chieftain who ruled Shachmu (the Biblical city of Shechem) mentioned in several Amarna Letters (and himself writing three of them) is the same person as the Biblical King Saul, and that the whole Amarna period is the same as the Early Monarchic Period of Israel.   “Anyone famil...
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