History
The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that the original Egyptian timeline, as recorded by Manetho and the ancient Egyptian King Lists, and as documented by the foremost Egyptologist of the British Empire, Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie, actually make far more sense than the Conventional Egyptian Timeline. The original timeline is herein called the Unified Long Timeline (or the ULT) as it also takes into account the dynastic records of Mesopotamia, and the various lines of scientific evidence amassed in the past century such as dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, and carbon-dating. The dates used in the ULT are taken from Petrie’s Researches In Sinai from 1906, and should not be misconstrued as exact dates. Petrie himself states that the earlier dates could be up to a century off, due to the limited amounts of records and artifacts dating to the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Likewise, the CET used herein is the ‘Middle Chronology’ of Egyptology. Egyptologists have worked out several variations of the short timeline, with each generation seeming to want to distinguish itself by erasing more of Egypt’s ancient history. And it is history, it was written down. There were Kings and Queens recorded, yet the way Egyptologists are going, by the year 3000, the Great Pyramids of Giza will probably have been designed by Archimedes and built by Cleopatra. The various versions of the CET proposed the past century can deviate by up to 630 years for the foundation of the 1st Dynasty, therefore the CET dates given should also be considered relative.