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These two lines in the king’s list are explicit. According to their documents, the total years of Egyptian history goes back 36,620 years. The argument that the years in the king’s list do not represent actual years, but some other, shorter, measurement of time seems more of an attempt to explain away than to explain. The ancient Egyptians employed a sophisticated calendar system that involved a 365-day year, which was periodically corrected through the predictable and cyclical nature of the star Sirius. Every 1,461 years, the heliacal rising of Sirius marked the beginning of the new year. A single Sirius cycle corresponds to 1,461 years, where each year is equivalent to 365.25 days. In essence, the marking of the New Year at the heliacal rising of Sirius was the ancient Egyptian’s ‘leap year.’ Of course, determining the length of Sirius’ cyclical nature requires stellar observation over thousands of years which means the origins of pharaonic Egypt, or its source of knowledge, must originate in the remote past.
nighthawk1954
Boy I love this stuff! A long read, but worth it. The Author claims the pyramids could be 39,000 years old or older!
HomerinNC
Gonna play devils advocate here for a second...
If it were true, wouldnt we have found evidence of a past civilization?
I mean hell, we have dino bones millions of years old, insects preserved in amber, caveman bones, but not one coke can from this past civilization??
According to recent genetic studies, all people today are the descendents of a single African woman who walked the Earth 150,000 years ago. According to geneticists, her mitochondrial DNA exists in all of us.
Even though the studies refer to a single man or woman in the past, they do not imply that those people were a couple or even that they were the only parents of all humans. Their primary significance is in pointing to the time when anatomically modern human beings, Homo sapiens sapiens, evolved from a more primitive ancestor, generally thought to be an archaic form of humans. Many experts propose that the founders of the modern species numbered around 10,000.
HomerinNC
Gonna play devils advocate here for a second...
If it were true, wouldnt we have found evidence of a past civilization?
I mean hell, we have dino bones millions of years old, insects preserved in amber, caveman bones, but not one coke can from this past civilization??
Logarock
reply to post by nighthawk1954
It is apparent that the Narmer/Scorpion line of kings was an intrusion in from the Sumerian area. The history of Egypt beginning there is not unlike the idea that Christopher Columbus discovered america.
Nacirema
Logarock
reply to post by nighthawk1954
It is apparent that the Narmer/Scorpion line of kings was an intrusion in from the Sumerian area. The history of Egypt beginning there is not unlike the idea that Christopher Columbus discovered america.
Uh... no. The protodynastic kings came from the southerly areas of Egypt (see the Qustul Incense Burner), or possibly even from northern Sudan. The idea that migrants from Mesopotamia gave birth to ancient Egyptian civilization is a largely discredited theory. There's no need to remove ancient Egypt from its African context.
Nacirema
Logarock
reply to post by nighthawk1954
It is apparent that the Narmer/Scorpion line of kings was an intrusion in from the Sumerian area. The history of Egypt beginning there is not unlike the idea that Christopher Columbus discovered america.
Uh... no. The protodynastic kings came from the southerly areas of Egypt (see the Qustul Incense Burner), or possibly even from northern Sudan. The idea that migrants from Mesopotamia gave birth to ancient Egyptian civilization is a largely discredited theory. There's no need to remove ancient Egypt from its African context.