So the “history” before now was simply a guess? But believe the new timeline, until another one comes along. Believe the SCIENCE!
I don’t believe anything out of these Egypt “experts”. That douche with the Indiana Jones hat you see on every special is an autocrat who allows no dissenting theories.
I say it all the time...”Grant Money is Forever”.
The Egyptian time line is based on the Kings List and another list of kings ?Manetheo? - many of the first kings mentioned are unknown, some historical kings are omitted, but thought to use a different name (pharaohs often changed their names, sometimes to that of some previous pharaoh). Worse, one list is known to be an 18th century forgery bought in a bazaar but is used anyway).
As you can read, there is lots of opportunities for confusion, mistaken IDs and so on. So with that you are correct in part - much of the time line is a guess and a by golly.
To make matters even more obscure, there were two Interregnums - periods of utter chaos with no Pharaohs where many things were destroyed in riots - these periods lasted for 100-200 years. Like some future archeologist 5,000 years later finding Antifa had rampaged across America for 150 years and reconstructing life and achievements in the US.
Now add in the prohibition by the Egyptian Antiquities Department on using modern dating techniques ; one fellow managed to get an optical bio-thermolucence (measures the time that has elapsed since mineral grains were exposed to daylight) reading on 2 sites before being shut down, both giving dates over 1000 years older than they were supposed to be.
So the “history” before now was simply a guess? But believe the new timeline, until another one comes along. Believe the SCIENCE!
That was my first thought as well.
When I hear someone say that, I generally ask, "Which version? Yesterday's science, today's science, or tomorrow's science?"
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“Believe the SCIENCE!”
Believe the SCIENCE FICTION would be better suited here.
These guys and dolls had best turn it down a bit.
They easily manage the take down of their own profession.
One potato, two potato. Is it an aspirin a day or not?
Show me the money/publicity; I’ll then change something
crucial to all concerned.
That is because there was no world wide calendar or even one in wide spread use. So when you came up on "In the year of -fill in the blank- This Happened" you have to figure out when that was. The closer it is to the Persian invasion the more accurate it will be but even then it is kind of iffy.
And that is if you have any written history.
For the vast majority we have no real written history at all.
History is not science.
Science may be used to establish certain things about history but when it comes to time lines we are fitting together tiny pieces of this and that.
It is more then a guess but not as solid as fact.