Alternative Chronologies
A number of suggestions for alternatives to the consensus on the conventional chronology have been presented during the 20th century:
- Laurence Waddell suggested the Egyptian and Sumerian were one and the same Aryan civilization, and that the founder of civilization was variously called Ukusi of Ukhu City, Udu, Uduin or Odin, Indar, Induru, Dur, Pur, Sakh, Sagaga, Zagg, or Gaur according to the Sumerian King List and Ikshvāku, Indra, Sakku or Purū according to a list he determined from seals of the Indus valley. He suggested this person started and watched civilization between 3378 and 3349 BCE.
- The Revised Chronology of Immanuel Velikovsky as postulated in his Ages in Chaos series
- The king-list-based reconstruction of Herman L. Hoeh as argued in Vol. 1 of his Compendium of World History
- The chronology of Donovan Courville as described in The Exodus Problem and Its Ramifications
- The Glasgow Chronology formulated by members of Velikovsky's Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in 1978
- The chronology of Peter James and his cohorts described in Centuries of Darkness
- The New Chronology of David Rohl, erstwhile director of the Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences, as described in his Test of Time series
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