The first excavation of the mound called Tell Es-Sultan (Jericho) was started in 1907 by Ernst Sellin. Following that John Garstang began work on the same site in 1930. In 1952 Katheen Kenyon began her own excavation in addition to which she also dug a …
Looking Again at Jericho under the New Chronology
Is Ramesses II the Pharaoh of Persecution?
It has long been claimed that Ramesses II is the Pharoah who persecuted the Israelites before the Exodus. The reference to Pi-Rameses and the assumption that Shoshenk and Shisak are one and the same, has led scholars under the Orthodox Chronology to believe that Ramesses …
Evidence for Solomon’s Riches
The Age of King Solomon was supposedly the cultural pinnacle for Israel and the Kingdom. If that is so, we would expect to see archaeological evidence of wealth, prosperity and multiculturalism. But if we look in the time frame suggested by the Orthodox Chronology we …
The El Amarna Letters
Prior to David Rohl’s New Chronology, the El Amarna letters were thought to be set earlier in the history of Israeli – Egyptian contact around the time of the Exodus. Now they are believed to record the process of the assault on the hill country …
Setting the Time for Amenhotep III
As I have told you before in these Nuggets, it is fortuitous when we can tag a time frame in the Egyptian Calendar and match it accurately with events in the Gregorian Calendar or to other known time periods. When we can do that we …
Moses and Khenephres
I am still gathering the facts which have been substantiated by David Rohl’s New Chronology. In 1 Kings 6:1 we are told the Exodus from Egypt occurred 480 years before the founding of the Temple of Jerusalem. According to Thiele’s Chronology Solomon’s coronation took place …
The Discoveries at Avaris
For more than two centuries archaeologists have sought evidence for the Israelites in Egypt. No Israelite settlement has ever been found in the 19th Dynasty where the Orthodox Chronology predicted it would be. I told you in the last Nugget about the Austrian team of …
Joseph’s Dream: Years of Plenty and Famine
Now that we have the chronological link between Shishak and Ramesses, we now know that Ramesses II was the Pharoah who destroyed the temple in Jerusalem in 925 BC. As a result of that chronological certainty, David Rohl has calculated the date of Joseph’s arrival …
Joseph’s Activity in Egypt
The Bible records for us two features of Joseph’s story during his time in Egypt. The first is the dream he received which effectively laid out for him what God wanted him to do, both for the land of Egypt and for the benefit of …
What Was Found in the Grand Vizier’s Tomb
Manfred Bietak and his team unearthed the tomb in Avaris in the Northern Hemisphere Spring of 1987, in the southern part of the palace garden at the stratum D/1 level. The superstructure for the tomb measured 12 metres by 7 metres. It was the largest …