Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Mt. Thera explosion launched Late Bronze Age, ended Hyksos power in Egypt, collapsed numerous City-States in West Asia, 1600 BCE

 https://news.uchicago.edu/story/worlds-oldest-weather-report-could-revise-bronze-age-chronology

For example, it realigns the dates of important events such as the fall of the power of the Canaanites and the collapse of the Babylonian Empire, said David Schloen, associate professor in the Oriental Institute and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations on ancient cultures in the Middle East.

“This new information would provide a better understanding of the role of the environment in the development and destruction of empires in the ancient Middle East,” he said.

For example, the new chronology helps to explain how Ahmose rose to power and supplanted the Canaanite rulers of Egypt—the Hyksos—according to Schloen. The Thera eruption and resulting tsunami would have destroyed the Hyksos’ ports and significantly weakened their sea power.

In addition, the disruption to trade and agriculture caused by the eruption would have undermined the power of the Babylonian Empire and could explain why the Babylonians were unable to fend off an invasion of the Hittites, another ancient culture that flourished in what is now Turkey.  

 Resolution of the Thera eruption date is therefore central to the synchronization of civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean in the later Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and early Late Bronze Age (LBA).

so 1600 BCE

 Thera, the Aegean, Egypt, the Hyksos and Anatolia: rethinking the orthodox synchronisations and histories 

 

 https://www.cis.org.uk/serve.php?filename=scb-7-2-humphreys-white.pdf

In the Bible, the "Joseph famine" refers to a severe seven-year famine that struck Egypt during the time of Joseph, where he was second in command to Pharaoh, and he used his foresight to stockpile grain during plentiful years, allowing Egypt to survive the famine while other regions suffered greatly and came to Egypt to buy food;

 

 

 

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