ClearingUp-Time's Book of Egyptian Chronology (2025)

One Further Step into the Past…. : a chronology of Dynasty Three Of Egypt

Since the Dynasty Four paper, that preceded this paper, has caused a furore why not shoot the whole box and dice in this next regression into Egyptology. Our reputation is so destroyed we, at ClearingUp-Time (CUT), have nothing to lose.

Universal Chronology of Egypt - Ch.3 of Seeds of Western Culture

Seeds of Western Culture, 2025

Chapter 3 of Seeds of Western Culture provides a 'no stone left unturned' review of the chronology of the kings, pharaohs and high priests of Egypt. New pillars are used including the identification of Thutmose III with Menophres, marking the start of the Great Year, Seth-Peribsen and Ahmose II (founder of the18th Dynasty) with the Cycle of the Phoenix, and The Genealogy of the Memphite Priestly Elite. The so-called 'anarchy' of the Third Intermediate Period is resolved demonstrating a tripartite structure with a pharaoh at Tanis and continuous subordinate kingship in both Upper and Lower Egypt.

Periodizing Egyptian History: Manetho, Convention, and Beyond, in: K.-P. Adam (ed.), Historiographie in der Antike (Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissen¬schaft, Beiheft 373), Berlin 2008, 183-197

Gundacker, R. 2015 The Chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties According to Manetho's Aegyptiaca, in Schneider, T.; Der Manuelian, P. (edd.), Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Perspectives on the Pyramid Age, HES 1, Leiden, 76-199

Manetho’s Aegyptiaca is one of the most important sources for ancient Egyptian chronology. This applies particularly to Old Kingdom chronology, because the archaeological and inscriptional evidence is sparse and contradictory. Although the late date of its composition may provoke doubts about its historical accuracy, W. Helck has already identified genuine Egyptian historiographical sources which were used by Manetho. A reevaluation of previous results concerning the kings’ names and lengths of reign provided by Manetho allows for the following conclusions: Manetho made use of at least two different Egyptian historiographical accounts for his Third and Fourth Dynasties. One of these contained in part the number of census-cycles for the Fourth Dynasty, while the other contained only correctly converted numbers of regnal years. Manetho’s account of the Fourth dynasty is therefore an important, but not yet fully recognized source for the determination of the regularity of the census until the late Fifth Dynasty.

An Alternative to the Velilkovskian Chronology of Ancient Egypt: A Preview of Some Work in the Field of Ancient History

SIS Workshop, 1983

Chronological Framework Ancient History 6 - The Old and Middle Kingdoms of Egypt.

Answers Research Journal, 2025

The authors demonstrate a plausible revision of the first seven centuries and 14 dynasties of Egyptian history from the Dispersion to the Exodus using all available historical sources, which will be seen to resolve several problems with reconciling Egyptian history with the Masoretic Text of Scripture for the Sojourn in Egypt.

An Alternative to the Velikovskian Chronology for Ancient Egypt A Preview of Some Recent Work in the Field of Ancient History

An early paper (1982) outlining the New Chronology for ancient Egypt in its first draft.

Hornung, Erik: Ancient Egyptian Chronology Handbook of Oriental Studies, I, the Near and Middle East

2006

Centuries Of Darkness And Egyptian Chronology: Another Look

Discussions in Egyptology, 1995

Centuries of Darkness (CoD) has recently pointed to a wide variety of early Iron Age problems as evidence of the need for a major downdating of the Egyptian New Kingdom. Such a lowering of dates would require a massive compression of the following Third Intermediate Period (TIP). However, the CoD authors have failed to come to grips with a number of important arguments in favor of the usual elements of TIP chronology (cf. especially Kitchen CAJ 1 [1991], 235ff. with James et. al. CAJ 2 [1992], 127f.). The first part of this article re-evaluates the chronological elements called into question by CoD, concluding that in many cases, at least some revision is very plausible. This is followed by an analysis of Egyptian genealogical evidence that appears to strongly support a massive compression of TIP chronology. Both factors point to a compression somewhat less severe than that proposed by CoD. The resulting TIP and Ramesside chronology (see also DE 29 [1994], 68ff.) is briefly tested against biblical history and found to produce a surprisingly good match.