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Thera (Santorini) eruption edges Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty later

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    This is a start. Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty to be lowered on the timescale by a century. Damien Mackey.   Ancient Egypt's origin story rewritten after scientists reveal new timeline for its most powerful era   Ancient Egypt's origin story rewritten after scientists reveal new timeline for its most powerful era   Story by Stacy Liberatore   A new discovery has rewritten the timeline of  Egypt’s early dynasties, placing the rise of the New Kingdom nearly a century later than previously thought.   The New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to 1070 BCE [sic], was Egypt's peak of power, wealth, and territorial expansion, the era of famous rulers like Tutankhamun.    It began with the 18th Dynasty, founded by Pharaoh Ahmose I, who reunited Egypt and expelled the Hyksos invaders, restoring central authority after a period of fragmentation.   Now, scientists have confirmed that the massive Santorini...
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Putting a face to Ezekiel’s Fallen King of Tyre

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    by   Damien F. Mackey     Hadrian, in fact, called Tyre a Metropolis , “Great City”, Mother of other cities.     Introduction   Although the emperor Hadrian would generally be considered to have been well out of chronological range to be able to qualify as the prophet Ezekiel’s fallen King of Tyre (28:1-19), here the ill-fated tyrant will be dragged back, kicking and screaming, by some centuries, to fuse with the notorious king, Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ (God Manifest), considered by many to be the persecuting “little horn” of Daniel 7 – the vision of whom had so troubled the prophet (Daniel 7:15, 28).   I had already come to the conclusion - directly in the face of text book wisdom - that Hadrian, regarded as being one of the great Roman emperors, was, in fact, a Greek. For, despite the chronological gap that is thought to separate Antiochus from Hadrian, the latter is often called ‘a mirror-image’ of Antiochus. ...
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