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Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt: The Secret History Hidden in the Valley of the Kings
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by Graham Phillips
Sales Rank: 305730
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List Price: $20.00
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Cover Type: Paperback with 392 pages
Published by: Bear & Company July 23, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1591430097
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1591430094
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Reader Reviews
That's the quote from the Times Literary Supplement. If this book is "plausibly argued", then what ISN'T plausibly argued? One has to wonder whether the British press ever credibly criticizes anything that is dreamed up by a Briton. Darwin has been enshrined as a secular deity, the Replacement hypothesis -- a racial superiority model -- has been embraced wholeheartedly, the Piltdown Hoax was immediately accepted and remained so for years, a British astronomer allegedly proved Einstein, but did not have definitive observations... Ideas from Immanuel Velikovsky's "Oedipus and Akhenaten" are borrowed (ahem) by Phillips, but so is all the ridiculous "Moses was Akhenaten" nonsense that has swilled out of many a pen, along with "the Exodus took place when Thera erupted" fiction. The author then adds that the tale of Atlantis really did originate in Egypt as Plato says, but refers to events taking place in the north. There was no titantic eruption on Thera in the 17th, 16th, or 15th century BC. As more rational scientists have noted, the caldera on Thera formed in prehistoric times, and probably not all at once. Furthermore, the ruins were not buried under dozens of meters of volcanic crud, despite the fact that the allegedly much less energetic Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD covered the surrounding area with much more mud and ash. Add to this the growing realization that the Linear B writing was still in use until the 2nd c BC (Latin loan words have been identified), and that Herodotus mentions no eruption or break in occupation at Thera (he discusses the island), while one (just one) later historian records an eruption circa 200 BC. The fact that the conventional pseudochronology is used is not in the book's favor, either. I have to think that this author is just cashing in on the wave of books featuring implausible revised antiquity. Amarna arose because Akhenaten's grandfather reintroduced worship of the Aten, reviving it from the Old Kingdom. By the time Akhenaten took the throne there was an ambitious priesthood, and a megalomaniac pharaoh. Akhenaten did nothing but play at being a god while the empire he'd inherited crumbled. Pleas for help preserved in the diplomatic archive found at Amarna were not answered. On a positive note, the author does seem to give short shrift to one implausibility from the scholarly world -- that Nefertiti didn't die, but became the pharaoh Smenkhare.
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