The chronology of the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Babylonia, as found in the textbooks, is wrong to a dramatic degree, with major events misdated and placed many centuries before they actually occurred. The pyramids of Egypt, for example, especially the massive monuments at Giza, are utterly inexplicable and puzzling if we follow the conventional dating scheme. These gigantic structures, which seem to display a knowledge of Pythagorean geometry on the part of their builders, are nevertheless said to have been erected near 2500 BC – around 2,000 years before Pythagoras lived. Even worse, the pyramid-builders worked granite as well as…

As I have shown in great detail in my Ages in Alignment series, the histories of the early civilizations are much shorter than is stated in the textbooks, and that the present chronology is the result of errors and misconceptions which accumulated over the centuries, beginning even before the start of the Christian era. The first major attempt at rectifying the situation was launched in the 1950s by Immanuel Velikovsky, whose Ages in Chaos series sought to realign the histories of Egypt and Israel, so that they agreed with each other. Whilst Ages in Chaos brought forth a great quantity…

In his Worlds in Collision (1950) Immanuel Velikovsky used myths, legends and traditions from throughout the world to illustrate his thesis that between the fifteenth and seventh centuries BC the earth suffered a series of devastating encounters with planetary bodies, which were recorded by the peoples of the time. Controversially, Velikovsky argued that in the fifteenth century a giant ball of fire, later to be the planet Venus, had erupted in a terrific explosion from the gas giant Jupiter and that this proto-planet, pulled by the sun’s gravitation, moved towards the inner solar system, where it came on a near-collision…