Synchronized Chronology: Rethinking Middle East Antiquity

Synchronized Chronology: Rethinking Middle East Antiquity offers a bold rethinking of how Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Mesopotamia fit together in time. Drawing on Egyptian inscriptions, archaeological layers, classical writers, and the Hebrew Bible, Roger Henry argues that the standard Egyptian timeline is structurally flawed—containing duplicated dynasties and phantom centuries that throw the entire ancient Near Eastern chronology out of alignment.

Henry walks readers from the age of the Patriarchs and the Middle Bronze Age through the Exodus, Conquest, Judges, United Monarchy, divided kingdoms, Assyrian expansion, Neo-Babylonian power, and the Persian Empire. He correlates biblical events with Egyptian history, re-dates the 18th–20th dynasties, reinterprets the Hyksos, and connects the Tell el-Amarna letters to Israelite and Aramean kings. Along the way he reconsiders the Greek “Dark Ages,” the rise of Assyria, the nature of the “Hittite Empire,” and the famous Battle of Carchemish, proposing new identifications for well-known pharaohs, including Ramses II.

Readers will find detailed discussions of key sites such as Jericho, Shechem, Samaria, and Tell el-Dab’a, as well as treatment of alphabet origins, the Sea Peoples, and the transmission of scripts and culture across the eastern Mediterranean.

This book will appeal to:

     - Students and enthusiasts of ancient Near Eastern history

     - Readers interested in biblical history and archaeology

     - Scholars and lay researchers curious about alternative chronologies

     - Those following the works of Immanuel Velikovsky, Peter James, and David Rohl

     - Anyone intrigued by how a single chronological shift can reshape the stories of Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Mesopotamia

Henry offers a coherent, cross-disciplinary framework that invites readers to reconsider long-held assumptions about the ancient world.

Incurably piqued by the contradictions identified by Immanuel Velikovsky in his much-loved "Ages in Chaos," and dissatisfied with the explanations given by Peter James in Centuries of Darkness, Roger Henry felt compelled to make public his own discoveries in the course of 25 years of research into the nagging discrepancies between the findings of archaeology and the assertions of history.

Henry’s writings have been published in several California newspapers. This is his first book.