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Emmet Sweeney

Emmet Sweeney is a high school teacher with many years’ experience in the classroom. He holds a Masters Degree in Early Modern History from the University of Ulster and has had numerous articles published in historical journals such as the “Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Review” and “Ancient Warfare.”His interest in ancient history was kindled by his father who told him, at an early age, of the daring exploits of Percy Fawcett and Hiram Bingham as they searched for the “Lost Cities” of South America. This interest was rekindled as a student in Belfast, where he discovered the works of Immanuel Velikovsky. Since then, Sweeney has travelled extensively in pursuit of his researches, including journeys to Egypt, Greece, and other locations in the Near East.Sweeney is the author of a series of books entitled “Ages in Alignment,” which seeks to rewrite pre-classical history in its entirety. He describes the salient features of each volume in his “Ages in Alignment” series and points out the important consequences of the skewed historical record as it is usually taught in his website at Emmet Sweeney.net.In parallel, following the research of German historian Heribert Illig, Sweeney pursues the astonishing theory that Europe never experienced a Dark Age. He demonstrates through archaeological, literary, and architectural evidence that the record actually supports this hypothesis which is fueling lively debates across Europe.For over 35 years he has researched the questions raised by Velikovsky’s attempted reconstruction of Egyptian history. If what Sweeney and those scholars who agree with him say proves to be correct, all the textbooks will need to be rewritten.

Egypt’s Ramesside Pharaohs and the Persians

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Vol. 4, Ages in Alignment series, 2nd and revised ed.

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The accepted chronology of ancient Egypt, Persia and Babylonia is wrong to a dramatic degree, with some major historical events mis-dated by several centuries.Modern Egyptologists tell us that Seti I and Ramses II reigned 700 years before the rise of the Medes and Persians, but Emmet Sweeney marshals archeological and linguistic evidence to show that Ramses II's dynasty was terminated by the Persian Conquest of Egypt (525 BC). Matching events, matching biographies, and matching cultural artifacts identify Seti II, hailed by the Egyptians as a warrior and hero, with Inaros, the Egyptian patriot who waged war against Xerxes and was eventually impaled on the orders of Artaxerxes I.

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Egypt's Ramesside Pharaohs and the Persians represents the final volume in the reconstruction of Near Eastern antiquity, bringing us from the start of the 6th century down to the early 3rd. The history presented here will appear at the same time both familiar and startlingly new.Readers will see how Ramses II, normally believed to have reigned during the 14th/13th century BC, was actually a contemporary of Cyrus the Great, founder of the mighty Persian Empire. They shall find how during the latter years of Ramses II, Cyrus usurped the Median throne and, under the Assyrian title of Tukulti-apil-esharra (Tiglath-Pileser), conquered Lydia, Babylon, and all of Palestine as far as the borders of Egypt.Names well-known from biblical history, such as Sargon and Nebuchadrezzar, will be shown to be identical to characters equally well-known from classical history including Darius I, Artaxerxes I and others. All these and other identifications are argued in some detail.Analyzing events like the Persian War against Greece, and Alexander’s conquest of Persia, Emmet Sweeney goes far beyond studying the monuments of each land. He has consulted ancient authors such as Manetho and Herodotus, as well as the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt, but in addition, Sweeney discusses how the design of chariots, for example, went through a very definite evolution, an evolution accurately depicted by the artists of the time. Close study of such evidence may help to date the reign of a king with a high degree of accuracy.Three dozen illustrations and a variety of timelines help bring the startling picture into sharp focus.

Introduction

...By 1989, as I looked into Mesopotamian history and archaeology in greater depth, I became aware that Sargon of Akkad could not possibly be the same person as Sargon II. At that time I corresponded with Heinsohn primarily through the intermediary of Englishman Derek Shelley Pearce, and I wrote to him that, if Sargon of Akkad were to be Sargon of Assyria, then the Neo-Assyrian Sargon II — along with the entire Neo-Assyrian epoch — would need to be brought forward into the Persian period. But, as I said to Derek, I didn’t see how that was possible. Shortly thereafter, Gunnar Heinsohn announced that the entire Neo-Assyrian epoch did indeed belong in the Persian Age.My reaction to Heinsohn’s announcement was what it had been earlier: The Neo-Assyrians couldn’t possibly be Persians because Herodotus, who lived and wrote during the Persian epoch, clearly placed the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib before the time of the Persian Empire. (Only later did I realize that Herodotus’ Egyptian informants had themselves been confused by the Persians, who used Assyrian as well as Persian throne-names, thus presenting Herodotus with a distorted image of their own past)....

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Chapter 1. Egypt’s New Kingdom in History?End of the Nineteenth DynastyChapter 2. The Fall of Imperial Egypt? The “Israel Stele” of Merneptah? Persians and “Libyans”? Ethiopian Rule? Queen Tewosret and the Three Brothers? Seti II? Esarhaddon at the Gates of “Sethosville”? Wenamon? Ethiopia Defeated? Psamtek and the ‘Saite’ Dynasty? Egypt Regains Her FreedomChapter 3. Peoples of the Sea Revisited? Ramses III Repulses the Persians? The Dynasty of Priests? The Deir El-Medina Genealogies? Tomb Robbers and Craftsmen of Deir el-MedinaChapter 4. Archaeology’s “Centuries of Darkness” Duplicating and Triplicating History? Biblical Synchronisms? Ramessides and Neo-Assyrians? The Neo-Hittites of Syria? The Hittite Cities: Malatya and Karatepe? Classical Synchronisms: Biblical Chronology versus Classical Chronology? The Archaeology of Phoenicia? Cypriot Tombs? GlassmakingChapter 5. Sargonids and Achaemenids? The Evidence of Art? Military Technology? The Cult of Ahura Mazda? Two Hebrew Prophets? The Second Sargon? Xerxes and Sennacherib? Assassination at the Palace? Artaxerxes I and His Time? Two Sons and two Mothers? Darius II and AshurbanipalChapter 6. The Babylonian Achaeminids? The Influence of Babylon? Artaxerxes II? Artaxerxes III and Nebuchadrezzar? End of the Empire? Extent of the Neo-Babylonian Empire? Nabonasser and Nabonidus? A Chronology in ChaosChapter 7. Questions and Answers? Absence of the Medes and Persians in Mesopotamia? Was Assyria a Wasteland after the Mede Conquest?? Was Babylonia a Wasteland after the Persian Conquest?? The Judgment of Archaeologists? Alter-egos and Reign-lengths? Who Were the Old Babylonians?EpilogueNeo-Assyrian and Achaemenid ParallelsChronology of Major Events of the 19th Dynasty to the End of the Persian Epoch