Pillars of the Past explores, through studies based primarily on scientific and technological evidence, the chronology of the ancient Near East. This evidence indicates that the historians and archaeologists have invented over 1500 years of history that simply never existed. The evidence includes astronomical Sothic dating, radiocarbon dating, pottery dating, tin bronze production, iron metallurgy as it relates to cutting diorite and other hard rock. In addition, erosion of Egyptian monuments along with agronomy and soil salinization, climatology, agriculture, as well as archaeological and geological stratigraphy all support the conclusion that at least 1500 years of ancient history are a mirage. Glass development, domestication of the horse and ass, Hebrew, Greek, and Hittite linguistics, forensic studies of the teeth of ancient peoples prove that this millennium and a half or more are historical fiction. There is of course much, much more. With hundreds of footnotes from many diverse fields of study, Ginenthal ruthlessly tears away the façade of the established long chronology. For new and old readers of ancient history, in clear, understandable language, the history of the ancient Near East is exposed, showing that at least half of the cloth of that age is an invention; that the emperor, in reality, has no clothes.

Author

Charles Ginenthal is the author of Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky and The Extinction of the Mammoth. and co-author of Stephen J. Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky. He has published papers in the journals AEON, Meta Research Bulletin and The Velikovskian. He has also contributed to Proceeding of the Immanuel Velikovsky Centennial 1895-1995, just published. His work appears in ABA the Glory and the Torment The Life of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, written by Velikovsky's daughter Ruth Velikovsky Sharon, Ph.D. He has also contributed to the book, Rebels & Devils: The Psychology of Liberation, with distinguished authors as Robert Anton Wilson and William S. Burroughs. He has presented papers at both national and international conferences on Catastrophism and is the editor-in-chief of the journal The Velikovskian. He resides in Forest Hills, New York.

Contents

Preface What is historical evidence?
Chapter 2 The Foundations of Ancient History
Chapter 3 The Sphinx
Chapter 3 Astronomical Sothic Dating
Chapter 4 Scientific ? Radiocarbon Dating
Chapter 5 Pottery Dating, Faience, and Tin
Chapter 6 Egyptian Stratigraphy
Chapter 7 Iron, Diorite and Other Hard Rock
Chapter 8 Mesopotamia and Ghost Empires
Chapter 9 Mesopotamian Stratigraphy
Chapter 10 Iron, Diorite, and the Sumerians
Chapter 11 Tin Bronzes and the Sumerians
Chapter 12 Pottery Dating and the Sumerians
Chapter 13 Scythian Princes in the Royal Tombs of Ur
Chapter 14 Agronomy and Climatology
Chapter 15 Dark Ages Based on Dark Scholarship
Chapter 16 Hittites — Lydians Corroboration
Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, and Analysis
Bibliography
Index
 

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