The chronology of ancient Egypt and Babylonia is wrong to a dramatic degree, with some major historical events mis-dated almost two thousand years before they actually occurred, according historian Emmet Sweeney, who argues that the pyramids, for instance, were built as "recently" as 800 BC. Sweeney points out that the presently accepted chronology of Egypt is not based on science, but on venerated literary tradition. This chronology had already been established, in its present form, by the third century BC, when Jewish historians, utilizing the “History of Egypt” by the Hellenistic author Manetho, sought to “tie in” Egypt’s history with that of the Bible. Sweeney is adamant the pyramids could not have been built 4,000 years ago. “The pyramids were partly constructed of hard granite and display in their design a knowledge of Pythagorean geometry,” he points out. Yet in 2350 BC, the Egyptians only had copper and flint tools and such principles of mathematics had yet to be formulated. But modern scientists and engineers have demonstrated, repeatedly, that granite, basalt and diorite – all materials used by the pyramid-builders - can only be cut using carbon-steel tools.

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Emmet Sweeney holds a Masters Degree in Early Modern History from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and is currently a lecturer at West University, Timisoara, Romania.

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