Peoples Of The Sea: The Concluding Volume Of The Ages In Chaos Series
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
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Condition remarks: Insect damage on jacket folds.
A bold work of revisionist history and historical reconstruction, Peoples of the Sea presents the concluding argument of Immanuel Velikovsky's ambitious Ages in Chaos series, in which he challenges the conventional chronology of the ancient world. Velikovsky argues that the accepted timeline of Egyptian history is misaligned by centuries, and he marshals archaeological, textual, and astronomical evidence to support a radical reordering of events in the ancient Near East. The work identifies the so-called Sea Peoples — long a mystery to mainstream Egyptologists — as the Persians of the first millennium BCE, a claim that upends long-held scholarly assumptions. Written with the confident, polemical tone of a scholar convinced of a paradigm-shifting discovery, the narrative is as provocative as it is meticulously detailed. Readers drawn to alternative histories, ancient civilizations, and the archaeology of the Mediterranean world will find this a challenging and intellectually stimulating conclusion to one of the twentieth century's most controversial historical projects.
Author: Immanuel Velikovsky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Genre: Ancient history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Insect damage on jacket folds.
A bold work of revisionist history and historical reconstruction, Peoples of the Sea presents the concluding argument of Immanuel Velikovsky's ambitious Ages in Chaos series, in which he challenges the conventional chronology of the ancient world. Velikovsky argues that the accepted timeline of Egyptian history is misaligned by centuries, and he marshals archaeological, textual, and astronomical evidence to support a radical reordering of events in the ancient Near East. The work identifies the so-called Sea Peoples — long a mystery to mainstream Egyptologists — as the Persians of the first millennium BCE, a claim that upends long-held scholarly assumptions. Written with the confident, polemical tone of a scholar convinced of a paradigm-shifting discovery, the narrative is as provocative as it is meticulously detailed. Readers drawn to alternative histories, ancient civilizations, and the archaeology of the Mediterranean world will find this a challenging and intellectually stimulating conclusion to one of the twentieth century's most controversial historical projects.