I have never heard of Velikovsky before this. Been reading about him since, fascinating.
So then, do you think his ideas were correct?
The general proposition that human “prehistory” is a) shaped by cataclysms and b) largely unknown and/or misinterpreted? Yes.
Dr V’s reconstruction of the timeline of the ancient Middle East is basically entirely correct; because he’s been dead for 30 years, some minor tinkering here and there may be in order, but the discoveries he didn’t live to see which bear him out (and I mean, entirely), such as the RC dating of Ramses II “the Great”’s four canopic jars, are completely inexplicable and not predicted by the conventional pseudochronology. Naturally, the denialists had to cook up the egregiously ad hoc “explanation” that the jars were reused by someone having access to such jars.
As V noted, the dating of most of the pseudochronological “echoes” are about 600 years apart, but in the case of Ramses II, it’s nearly 800.
The RC date of the human remains from the jars are 760 years later than the pseudochronological expectation. Clearly it would be desirable to attempt a genetic test of the remains and of the (known) mummy of Ramses II.
And a RC dating of the mummy as well.
And while we’re dreamin’, a cosmic ray exposure dating of those giant statues of Ramses which were moved when the Aswan High Dam was flooding the Nile valley.