by REBrammer
The Problem with Time
Recorded history is the written memory of things said and done. Myth...in part true...in part false, neither true or false but only a convenient form of error. A mass of related and unrelated information, impressions and images fashion into history. It is not possible nor essential that this picture of the past be complete or completely true. It is essential that it be useful with a degree of relevance & harmony.
Mr. Everyman does not wish to learn the whole truth or arrive at the ultimate conclusion. Rather he wishes to adjust himself to a practical situation or simply ignore common sense an adapt to the illusion.
The Dog and the Pup show.
Conventional Egyptian chronology relies upon the Sothic cycle or Canicular period of 1460 years or 4 times 365 to equal the amount of time it takes the Dog star Sirius to return to it original point of orbit or “prt spdt”.
A Roman named Censorinus wrote a book in 238 AD that include some astronomy pointing to 139 AD as a date for a heliacal rise of Sirius. With a little magic dust & a big imagination, the reign of Amenhotep I was placed at 1525 to 1504 BC.
End of story, case closed and anyone who does not believe this is a nut-job or a kook!
Then someone subtracted 139 from 1460 and got 1321 and called it the era of Menophthah/Menophres aka Rameses I. If you add to two numbers together you get 1599.
Theon, the Alexandrian astronomer of the 4th century alluded that 1605 years elapsed between Menophres and the end of Augustus. (Christian Bunsen 1854)
Now let’s see. Augustus Gaius Julius Caesar “Octavianus” ruled 63 BC to 14 AD.
It makes absolutely no sense to me that Theon would have been talking about a "nobody" like Menophres who ruled only 2 years, when referring to the famous Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. It would make more sense if he were referring to "Men-nofir" or the Min of Memphis the founder of the first dynasty of Egypt. Doing the math; Augustus' rule ends in 14 AD so subtract 1605 years and you get 1591 BC or the beginning of the first dynasty.
The major problem with Sirius:
One small observation overlooked is the fact that Sirius is a binary star with a companion named Sirius B or the PUP. The Pup is the remaining core of a super-nova that occurred 13,000 to 12,700 years ago. Sirius’ B’s unusually strong gravitational effect causes Sirius A to wobble and makes a full orbit in 50 years.
Logic dictates that it is this 50 years cycle that was being observed and used to calculate Jubilees not the heliacal rise of 1460 years. Who in their right mind would stand around for over a thousand years just to figure out what day it was?
More evidence that something is wrong:
Example I. King Tut’s coffin was made of wood from the Cedar of Lebanon.
University of Pennsylvania lab test # P-726 wood sample dated = 1030 +/- 50 BC.
Lebanon cedars live over 1000 years & do not even to flower until they are 25-30 years old. Tut’s tree would needed to have been 500 years old in order to have a trunk large enough to carve a one piece coffin.
1080 to 980 less 500 = 580 to 480 BC.
Compare the Cedar to the giant redwood or “Giant Sequoia” of California that lives to over 3500 years.
Example II . Dr. John Iles of Ontario actually did succeed in an endeavor to check dates.
In 1977, N. B. Millet curator of the Egyptian Department of the Royal Ontario Museum, described the historical background of the mummy of Nakht, which the Canadian Medical Association was analyzing.
According to Millet Nakht was “invariably described as the weaver of the KNY temple” of King Setnakht, the first ruler of the Twentieth Dynasty and father of Ramses III.
Millet wrote about Nakht’s mummy that there was “unusually clear evidence of its date.”
Upon reading the report, Dr. Iles wrote a letter to the Canadian Medical Association’s Journal, asking that a Carbon 14 test be performed.
The death of King Setnakht, the first ruler of the Twentieth Dynasty, is conventionally dated at 1198 BC.
On Dr. Iles’ initiative, the Royal Ontario Museum submitted linen wrappings from the mummy of Nakht to Dalhousie University for radiocarbon testing.
On November 9, 1979, W. C. Hart of Dalhousie University wrote to Dr. Iles:
“The date on linen wrappings from the mummy of Nakht is: DAL-350 2295 ± 75 years before the present (1950),” meaning -345 ± 75 or 420 to 270 BC.
Dr. Iles reported these results in a letter to the association’s journal. (March 8, 1980).
Example III. In 1971 the British Museum processed palm kernels and mat reed from the tomb of Tutankhamen.
The resulting dates, as Dr. Edwards, Curator of the Egyptian Department of the British Museum, wrote to the University of Pennsylvania radiocarbon laboratory, were -899 for the palm kernels and -846 for the mat reed.
These results, however, were never published.
Example IV. Zahi Hawass has ruled out the possibility of any DNA tests, calling them unreliable. Egyptian antiquity officials have always rejected DNA tests on mummies of pharaohs, fearing the tests could challenge established theories.
Conclusion = something is wrong!
This kings list includes the names of seventy-six kings and pharaohs of Egypt and is found on the walls of the Temple of Seti at Abydos.
The 75 king listed is Menpehtira and the 76 king listed is Menmaatra who's birth name is Seti Mery-en-ptah, meaning "He of the god Seth, beloved of Ptah.
Ramses II who calls himself Re-amasesa states that he was the son of Minmuaria the son of Minpahiritaria. (Aria is key to remember)
What is odd is that the mummy of Ramses I, found its way to America and had remained there for over 140 years. The star attraction of an exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. After looking at it for an half an hour, Zahi Hawass said "It's definitely a royal mummy." But we are very happy it will be returned to Egypt where the rest of the royal mummies are." "We are not 100% sure that the mummy is that of Ramses I," said Mr. Hawass. "But we are 100% sure that it is of a king." (Because he says so!)
So why doesn't Mr. Hawass go spend an half an hour looking at the "king looking" Usermontu in California? (All hat and no cowboy)
Min-Pahirita-Ria seems a good match for Men-Pehti-Ra but Min-Mua-Ria doesn't seem to match Men-Maat-Ra. Who really was the father of Ramses II?
Why are Akhenaten, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamen, Ay and even Ramses II are not included on the king's list? The major reason why is because they were not kings of Egypt at the time the list was made. They came later.
The 66th king listed is Ahmose I (Amasis to the Greeks) was given the birth name Ah-mose (The Moon is Born). His throne name was Neb-pehty-re (The Lord of Strength is Re) and ruled from 1550–1525 BC. Now the experts want you to believe that Ahmose II didn't come along for another 1000 years until 570 BC! By the way...the "pehty-re " is the same as that found in Men-Pehti-Ra.
And going back to Seti. Set or Seth was the snake-dragon of Marduk the city god of Babylon. Called Mushussu, he was the Babylon dragon of Chaos. Nebuchadnezzar kept one to worship. Why would the name of an Babylonian dragon be found in the name of an Egyptian king unless he was somehow Babylonian? In 586 BC King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia captures Jerusalem and defeated the Egyptian army.
If
Assyrian & Babylonian kings defeated Egypt, should we not see their names on the
kings list. Thebes is called "Waset" and its glyph is a stick with the head of a
snake-dragon. ![]()
So who was Amasis II?
The reign of Amasis from 570 - 526 BC was a time of unexampled material prosperity for Egypt and it is said he controlled over 20,000 towns.
Amasis' master King Apries had sent a failed expedition against Cyrene that led his solders into holding him personally responsible for the disaster. Survivors and friends of the killed men broke into rebellion to which Apries sent General Amasis to argue the rebels into submission.
Instead of persuading them into returning to duty the General joined their cause and led the attack against Apries. Now poor old Apries having lost his army had to resort to his Greek (Carian and Ionian) mercenaries to defend his palace.
Now think about this: the king of Egypt with a force of Greeks mercenaries (people of the Sea) fighting against his own Egyptian army led by an Egyptian general! Carve that on a wall at Abu Simbel and tell me what you see.
Needless to say Apries lost both the battle and his kingship at a place called Momemphis. The Carian and Ionian mercenaries then joined Amasis. Newly crowned king Amasis kept Apries alive and treated him well, yet the Egyptians objected and demanded his death.
King Apries with his nose cut off.
Rameses II was one of the first kings to experience a confrontation with the “Sea People” just like Amasis II confronting the Greek sea raiders of Apries and Psammetichus. These Ionian and Carians states Herodotus were the first foreigners to live in Egypt and the first Greeks to begin regular relations in the year is 664 B.C. and not 1279 B.C.
King Amasis the Master builder:
1. He created the marvelous gateway for the temple of Athene (Neith) in Sais along with large statues and immense men-sphinxes, which were larger than all Egyptian kings before him.
2. Conveyed the largest stone ever known from Elephantine to Sais of which still remains except in pieces.
3. He created the 75-foot image in front of the temple of Ptah at Memphis as well as one at Sais.
4. He built the temple of Isis at Memphis.
5. He granted a commercial headquarters of Naucratis to the Greek traders.
6. He granted the Greek mercenaries land in Memphis and allowed them to build temples.
7. He married the daughters of many other kings as well as a daughter of Apries.
8. He concluded a pact of friendship with Cyrene and Samos.
9. He was the first man to take Cyprus and compel it to pay tribute.
10. He reigned for 44 years thus he must have lived a long life.
11. He admired the wisdom of the influential Athenian Solon who was known as one of the seven wise men who also advised him, Polycrates and Croesus king of Lydia.
New Banebdjed temple at Mendes (built
570-567)
Continued construction works at the temple of the goddess Neith in Sais
(described by Herodotus, Histories, 2.175)
The temple of the cobra-goddess Wadjet at Buto (Herodotus, 2.155-156)
Construction works at the temple of Ptah in Memphis
A temple for Isis at Memphis (Herodotus, 2.176)
Another Wadjet-temple at Nabesha
A temple to Osiris at Athribis
A temple for Anubis at Saqqara
A temple in the complex of Khentimentiu at Abydos
A chapel of Osiris at Coptos
Some building activities at Karnak by Nitocris and Ankhnes-Neferibre
The temple of Isis at Philae
Chapels in the Bahariya oasis
A small temple for Amun in the Khargha oasis
The temple of Ammon in Siwa
What is going on here?
Why is Ramses II commonly listed as one of the most active builders in Egypt yet a thousand years later Amasis II is claimed to have left everyone else far behind in both size and quality, yet we only find the marvelous works of Ramses II and very little of Amasis II who by coincidence were both building in almost the same locations?
Amasis II ?
Apries (I think they are both the same Apries who
got his nose cut off)
Amasis II builds a 75 foot statue of himself in Memphis and if we look at the ruins one can find one of a pair of gigantic, impressive statues of Ramses II. Its companion was moved to Cairo and stands at Ramses Square opposite the railroad station. Where did Amasis II statue go? How did the statue of Ramses II out survive the statue of Amasis II. What happen to the 75 foot statue Amasis II built.
You will also find the temple of Ptah including a sanctuary of Ramses II and an alabaster embalming bed, which dates to the time of Amasis II.
North of this temple you will find the remains of the palace platform of Apries as well as the land area called the “Roman encampment” that also dates to the 26th dynasty.
Memphis but no
Elvis.
Ramses II accepted the daughters of many of the same kings as Amasis II did. One princess of Bekhaten was under the influence of some evil spirit in much the same way Amasis II married the princess Ladice daughter of Battus who was bewitched. In both cases the princess were cured with Ramses II honoring the goddess Anat (Annuthat) and Amasis II while honering Athena, Ladice made a silent pray to the Greek Goddess of love Aphrodite.
Later, it was actually Cambyses II who sent Ladice safely back to Cyrene.
* In a Cyprian inscription (KAI. 42) the Greek goddess Athêna is equated with Anat who is described in the inscription as the strength of life : l‘uzza hayim.
At the time of Ramses II and Amasis II subterranean galleries were cut in stone prepared for the Apis Bull.
Candaules king of Sardis was called Myrsilus by the Greeks and later on we find the Lydian named Myrsus the son of Gyges around the time of Amasis II. It seems there was a Hittite named Mursilis II at the time of Ramses II.
Khatte, Khattusas, Hattusilis, the Hittites and Lydia all have the same land in common. Also note that the “hat” is the same “hat” in Hatshepsut.
Ramses II was said to have ruled 66 years with the stela of the year 21 treaty acting as a starting point, he would have actually ruler around 45 years.
It is a common rule to leave off the “R” from a name thus you could get Amasis from Ramses or that which echoes a name as in Re-amasesa.
What about horses! Did they ride on horse back during the time of King Tut?
Tutankhamen seems to have enjoyed not only driving his chariot, but also mounting on horseback. This has been inferred from a riding crop found in his tomb bearing the inscription "that he came on his horse like the shining Re". According to a few rare depictions, such as a relief in Horemheb's tomb, horses were ridden bareback and without stirrups. At times the rider sat on the horse's rump in the fashion donkeys are still mounted today, which would have limited the horses pace to a slow trot.

Ramses II built a complex of six rows of stables for 460 horses at Per-Ramses on the southern edge of the Delta, covering 1,700 square meters. They had sloping floors and troughs at the lower end for keeping the floor as dry as possible and catching the horses' urine. The stables contained stone water basins and stone tethers.
Pharaohs often supervised personally the treatment their horses were getting
personally.
Ramses II

These are all 18th dynasty horses being ridden bareback and without stirrups.
Anyone who has ever ridden a horse knows that it is much faster to ride across rough terrain on horseback than to be drawn by a light weight chariot. Ask any Comanche Indian...the horsemen of the plains.
Tutankhamen
"that he came on his horse like the shining Re" being in a
hurry and having no stirrups would have most likely gotten a knee-up on his left
leg which would have rammed his dagger into his upper knee, even tearing the
knee cap. CT image of
the left knee showing a peculiar fracture of the lower part of the thigh bone
with the dense embalming material covering its edges (arrow) suggesting its
occurrence shortly before death.
Why is this defeated Libyan from Abu
Simbel near Aswan wearing an Ankh for an ear ring? Why does he have the Jewish
Payot or sidelock.