Exodus to Arthur Catastrophic Encounters with Comets

by Baillie, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780713486810
• ISBN10: 0713486813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Batsford

Summary

This intriguing challenge to traditional views of history, provides explanations for many of the myths and legends that continue to haunt humankind. In particular, it argues that, in the last five millennia, the Earth has undergone several catastrophic encounters with comets and their debris--and that mythology has preserved these events better than so-called "factual" records.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Table	p. 9
Introduction	p. 10
Introduction to dendrochronology	p. 14
Some examples from dendrochronology	p. 31
Volcanoes and tree-rings	p. 48
The volcano story continues to build	p. 62
Not all plan sailing: tensions in the volcano story	p. 79
Problems with dating the Shang Dynasty and the New Kingdom	p. 90
Exodus and the 480-year interval	p. 99
The Exodus-Santorini scenario: independent testing?	p. 109
Independent suggestions of extraterrestrial effects	p. 122
Other environmental effects	p. 143
The wasteland concept	p. 153
Velikovsky revisited	p. 166
Merlin, Lug and Michael	p. 181
Reinforcing the connections	p. 192
Conclusions	p. 203
Appendix	p. 219
Glossary	p. 249
References	p. 256
Index	p. 267
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