In the time of the pyramid-builders. Volume 2, In the series Ages in alignment. / Emmet Sweeney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweeney, Emmet John, author.

Series:

Ages in Alignment Series

Ages in Alignment Series ; v.Vol. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pyramids--Egypt.

Pyramids.

Egypt--Chronology.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

Second edition, updated and expanded.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

In the Time of the Pyramid-Builders examines the great epoch of pyramid-building in Egypt, from the Fourth to the Sixth Dynasties, from an entirely new perspective. These dynasties are currently held to have flourished in the third millennium BC, whereas Sweeney demonstrates, in a great variety of ways, that they rightly belong in the early first millennium BC - almost two thousand years closer to our own time.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. Walls Raised by the Hands of Giants

Glimpses of a Bygone Age

A Worldwide Phenomenon

The Dragon of Chaos

Dark Secrets of the Pyramids

The Cult of the Phoenix

The Theory of Catastrophes

An Age of Megaliths and Heroes

Chapter 2. When Did the Pyramid-Builders Live?

Science and Technology of the Pyramid-Builders

Phoenicia and Egypt during the Pyramid Age

Religion of the Pyramid Age

Biblical Parallels

Echoes of the Old Kingdom

Chapter 3: Ancient History in Chaos

How Egyptian Chronology was formulated

Stratigraphy and Chronology

The Triplication of Ancient History

The Revised Chronology of Egypt

Chapter 4. God-Like Kings of Old

The Demise of Early Dynastic Egypt

The Reign of Sneferu

Khufu and His Successors

The Kings of Elephantine

The Chronology of Herodotus

Ethiopian Pyramid-Builders

Chapter 5. The Assyrian Conquest

The Asiatic Dynasty

Akkadians, Hyksos and Assyrians

The 'Shepherd Kings' of Mesopotamia

Pyramid-Builders and Ziggurat-Builders

The Middle Kingdom

The Thirteenth Dynasty

Political Fragmentation in Egypt

Chapter 6. The Wandering Tribes of Israel

Moses and His World

Ra-Atum and Yahweh

Hercules of Israel

The Age of the Judges

The Philistine-Assyrian Alliance

Chapter 7. Heroic Age Greece

The Mycenaean World

The Pyramids of Greece

Pelops and the Trojan Campaign

Menelaus in Egypt

Mopsus

Epilogue

Appendix

Radiocarbon Dating

Stone, Bronze and Iron

The Technology of Carving Granite and Diorite

The Chronology of Herodotus Amended

Bibliography

Index

Fig. 1. The sun-god Ra, in the form of a great cat, slays the serpent-dragon Apep.

Fig. 2. Pyramid-capstone, or benben, of Amenemhet III, showing original form of the benu-bird, the phoenix.

namely a winged solar disc.

Fig. 3. The Giza pyramids, as they might have looked when newly-built.

Fig. 4. Brick arch in Third Dynasty mastaba at Beit Khallaf (after Petrie).

Fig. 5. The iron plate discovered by Vyse deep in the masonry of the Great Pyramid.

Fig. 6. Diorite statue of Khafre. Engineers agree that carving such a statue without the aid of good-quality steel tools is well-nigh impossible.

Fig. 7. Bearded Asiatics, evidently Phoenicians, aboard Egyptian ship

from relief of Sahura, Dynasty 5.

Fig. 8. The Papyrus Ipuwer, which speaks of events strikingly similar to those described in the Book of Exodus. The papyrus itself is dated to the First Intermediate Period. However, as shown in Chapter 5, the First Intermediate Period is actually contemp

Fig. 9. Ostracon containing a fragment of the Prophecy of Neferty.

Fig. 10. Kneeling statue of Pepi I, Dynasty 6.

Fig. 11. Kneeling statue of Thutmose III, Dynasty 18. The pose and portrayal closely resembles that of Pepi I, which supposedly predates it by roughly eight centuries. But it was only during the Sixth and Eighteenth Dynasties that pharaohs were portraye

Fig. 12. Pottery parallels identified by Kaplan between Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Middle Bronze Age Syria. Note particularly the precise correspondence between Hyksos Age material of Syria (MB II) and Akkadian Age material of Mesopotamia.

Fig. 13. The earliest surviving copy of the Pyramid Texts, from the pyramid of Unas, Dynasty 5.

Fig. 14. The Nubian pyramids at Napata, in 1821.

Fig. 15. Cartouche of Pepi II (left) compared with one of the Hyksos Apepi. The slight variation in spelling may be explained by the occurrence of regional dialects and scribal colleges in Egypt.

Fig. 16. Button badges of Mesopotamian design, discovered by Petrie in tombs of the Sixth and Seventh Dynasties.

Fig. 17. An Asiatic prisoner, from a decorated chest of Tutankhamun, wearing a typical button badge.

Fig. 18. Two of the alabaster vases, of Fifth/Sixth Dynasty date, described by Naram-Sin, as "booty of Magan".

Fig. 19. The sickle-sword, one of numerous Mesopotamian innovations introduced into Egypt by the Hyksos.

Fig. 20. Proof positive that the Twelfth Dynasty was contemporary with the Hyksos comes in the fact that, as with the Sixth Dynasty, the word "Hyksos" appears on Egyptian inscriptions of the time. Above is an illustration of an Asiatic chief described as

Fig. 21. Scarab of Hatshepsut, with name of Senwosret II. (after Petrie)

Fig. 22. Pectoral of Amenemhet III slaying Asiatics. This is one of the very few portrayals of Twelfth Dynasty pharaohs in warlike pose. It would appear that, during the great war of liberation, Amenemhet III threw in his lot with the patriots of Thebes

Fig. 23. Small pyramid, of Mycenaean Age, at Elliniko in the Peloponnese, almost certainly dating to the early 8th century BC.

Fig. 24. Mycenaean Greek chariot, from fresco at Pylos

virtually identical in design to that brought to Egypt by the Hyksos.

Fig. 25. Section of the Great Pyramid showing the water-table level under the monument. According to Herodotus, this is where Cheops was interred.

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ISBN:

9781628945232

1628945230

OCLC:

1492991537