History
Before the dynastic period, Manetho and other ancient sources stated there was a series of older civilizations in the Nile. Little has been found from the period, however, some findings do support his claims. While much of the Pre-Dynastic era may be fiction, it would be irresponsible to propose returning to Manetho’s timeline without looking at what the Egyptians believed came before. One might read the history of Christian scholars re-writing Egyptian history, and wonder: why? What difference does it make when the Ancient Egyptians thought their civilization was founded to a Christian? If someone believes the world was created in 4004 BC, what difference does it make if ancient Egyptians thought their civilization was founded in 5510 BC? After all, they weren’t Christian. The reason early Christians were so insistent on re-dating the ancient Egyptian timeline, was because it was tied directly to the Egyptian concept of Zep Tepi, or the First Time. The First Time was what came before the unification of Egypt at the beginning of the 1st Dynasty. Zep Tepi was a time when Gods and Spirits ruled Egypt, and this brought it into direct conflict with early Christianity, and the idea that there was only one God. This obsession with ‘proving Christianity’ continued to be mainstream thought well into the 1900s, although it is now generally not a concern to academics, other than to the ‘agnostic’ David Rohl. Nevertheless, modern Egyptologists continue to ignore Zep Tepi, as their Christian precursors did, using the same reasoning: those gods and spirits didn’t exist, so why bother studying them? It seems strange, that people who have dedicated their lives to studying ancient Egypt, would simply not bother studying parts of Egyptian history, based on their personal assumptions that these parts of history didn’t happen, yet that is the state of current Egyptology. Whatever the ancient Egyptians were trying to remember and record in their history, is apparently not important to modern Egyptologists, which is why the C.E.T. can be not only the dominant timeline, but the only timeline studied by Egyptologists, when it directly contradicts the records of the ancient Egyptians.