[SunkenCiv]

One of *those* topics.

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The Allies of Priam
from The Dark Age of Greece
by Immanuel Velikovsky

Phrygians as allies of Priam, in the hinterland of the Troad, in conflict with the Cimmerians, themselves pursued by the Scythians, would limit the period of the Trojan War to the years between -720 and -687... The allies of Priam also included Ethiopians under Memnon; ...What is called here Ethiopians were actually Sudanese... dated from ca. -712 to -663, when Ashurbanipal pursued Tirhaka to Thebes, occupied it, and expelled the Ethiopian from Egypt proper. The tradition concerning Memnon, the Ethiopian warrior who came to the help of Troy, would reasonably limit the time of the conflict also to the end of the eighth and the beginning of the seventh century... as just said, close to the middle of the seventh century, and possibly at an earlier date, Gyges, the king of Sardis, sent in the reverse direction Carian and Ionian mercenaries to assist the Egyptian king Psammetichus in throwing off the Assyrian hegemony. Thus it seems that if the participants in the Trojan War all belong to the eighth-seventh century, Homer, who is thought to have lived at the end of the eighth century or the beginning of the seventh, must have been either a contemporary of the siege of Troy, or separated from it by one generation only.

[nopardons]

Interesting...BUT...that still does NOT make Achilles a member of the Negroid race! He was a blonde GREEK Caucasoid and supposedly part water nymph! ;^)