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Hi Everybody,
I wonder if some of you might be interested to study and criticize a large, astronomy-based, synchronictic chronological table of the ancient Near East. After spending many days in vain on the Internet - looking for a database for the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean - one may conclude that there is no such source. (Let alone to find a publicly available and viewable dendrochronological log on the Internet covering the 2nd millennium BCE.)
Therefore, should you be interested, I would be glad to send you the whole table by e-mail. It starts with Sargon of Akkad, from 2381 BC. His reign is based on the 14 June 2353 BC total eclipse of the Sun in Iraq, plus the several eclipse records of the Third Dynasty of Ur. The table incorporates several ancient - quite ignored - eclipse records, five of them from the 12-year reign of Esarhaddon king of Assyria. The table ends with the fifth century BC.
Some of the ignored eclipses, in my opinion, are depicted on stelae, tablets, or seals from the Near East. One can identify most of these as representations commemorating annular total eclipses of the Sun. Crescents of the Moon seem very different from "crescents" of the eclipsed Sun.
Thus, I try to find experts that would approve or disapprove this huge chronological table (called "Modified High Chronology"), make comments on it, and utilize it for their research in harmonizing astronomy with a (better) calibrated radiocarbon dating system and dendrochronology.
There are recent (2010) articles in scientific magazines, proving that the commonly accepted chronology of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom is correct. I cannot agree on that, for I have found an error of more than a century in the
dates of the 18th Dynasty. (The traditional dates seem far too low.)
Please suggest me a way how to make this table available for everyone interested without personal messages or indicating my e-mail address.
Thank you for your kind attention
Zoltan Andrew Simon, Historian (originally geologist and land surveyor)
Red Deer, Alberta (Canada)
I wonder if some of you might be interested to study and criticize a large, astronomy-based, synchronictic chronological table of the ancient Near East. After spending many days in vain on the Internet - looking for a database for the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean - one may conclude that there is no such source. (Let alone to find a publicly available and viewable dendrochronological log on the Internet covering the 2nd millennium BCE.)
Therefore, should you be interested, I would be glad to send you the whole table by e-mail. It starts with Sargon of Akkad, from 2381 BC. His reign is based on the 14 June 2353 BC total eclipse of the Sun in Iraq, plus the several eclipse records of the Third Dynasty of Ur. The table incorporates several ancient - quite ignored - eclipse records, five of them from the 12-year reign of Esarhaddon king of Assyria. The table ends with the fifth century BC.
Some of the ignored eclipses, in my opinion, are depicted on stelae, tablets, or seals from the Near East. One can identify most of these as representations commemorating annular total eclipses of the Sun. Crescents of the Moon seem very different from "crescents" of the eclipsed Sun.
Thus, I try to find experts that would approve or disapprove this huge chronological table (called "Modified High Chronology"), make comments on it, and utilize it for their research in harmonizing astronomy with a (better) calibrated radiocarbon dating system and dendrochronology.
There are recent (2010) articles in scientific magazines, proving that the commonly accepted chronology of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom is correct. I cannot agree on that, for I have found an error of more than a century in the
dates of the 18th Dynasty. (The traditional dates seem far too low.)
Please suggest me a way how to make this table available for everyone interested without personal messages or indicating my e-mail address.
Thank you for your kind attention
Zoltan Andrew Simon, Historian (originally geologist and land surveyor)
Red Deer, Alberta (Canada)