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Ages in Chaos II: Ramses II and His Time

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This was the second published volume of Velikovsky's reconstruction of ancient Egyptian history, and it is thoroughly documented and footnoted, and beautifully written.

By far, the most compelling link concerns the Battle of Kadesh, the first of several legendary conflicts on which the history of the known world changed. Other such battles included Hastings, Waterloo, San Jacinto, Gettysburg and Stalingrad. Velikovsky demonstrates quite convincingly that the Battle of Kadesh between Ramses II and the "wretched chief of Khatti," Hattusilis, and the Battle of Carchemish 600 years later between Pharaoh Necho II and Nebuchadnezzar, were one and the same, and the real battle - in the seventh century - pitted Ramses II, the Pharaoh of Egypt, against Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and Nebuchadnezzar won.

To accept this, one must accept the fact that Egyptian dating is off by six centuries, easier to accept if you read the appendix in Peoples of the Sea and see how the conventional Egyptian dating scheme was artificially constructed in the first place.

Those who arrogantly dismiss these works as untrue and inaccurate are simply not willing to consider alternative viewpoints. That's their problem. But we will never arrive at a clearer understanding of our historical past until we do, and Velikovsky did just that.