• Alternative Chronology of Egyptian History

    From roman@700:100/72 to All on Fri Dec 19 16:44:24 2025
    This is merely an my opinion. It is based on my own research
    and conclusions. I do not insist on its correctness but
    invite you to consider the theory of a new chronology of the
    Egyptian civilization, grounded in the study of Manetho's
    dynastic lists and ancient fossils. Between 1913 and 1917,
    local workers and farmers in South Africa, in an area called
    Boscop, discovered strange skulls. The main characteristic
    of these artifacts was an abnormally large cranial capacity.
    The skull volume was approximately 1800 - 2000 cm3,
    compared to about 1350 cm3 in an average human. Studies
    revealed an increased density of neurons in the prefrontal
    cortex. This endowed the Boscop people with phenomenal
    analytical abilities, memory, and strategic thinking. However,
    such a brain required enormous energy expenditure - up to 25%
    of total metabolism. The Boscop people, like the race of giant
    Nephilim, whose existence is abundantly evidenced, for
    example in Armenia, are ignored by modern science. The bones
    of Armenian giants - humans over 2.5 meters tall - and the
    Boscop skulls are considered mutations of Homo sapiens.
    But, the existence of Denisovans was established almost by a
    handful of bones and DNA found in a cave. Clearly, the
    Boscop and giant humans deviate from the default narrative
    of human evolution. Nonetheless, if we set aside snobbery,
    certain conclusions can be drawn based on current knowledge.
    From about 30,000 to 3,000 years ago, alongside modern
    Homo sapiens, other human species existed: Neanderthals, the
    Indonesian hobbits, Denisovans, Australopithecines, the race
    of giants known as Nephilim, and also the Boscop people. In
    Armenia, a unique handwritten document is preserved - the
    most complete copy of the dynastic list of Egyptian pharaohs
    written by the Greek historian Manetho. This list is still
    used by scholars today. However, modern science dismisses
    the earlier parts of this list. According to Manetho, in the
    beginning, Egypt was ruled by deities: Amon-Ra for 1,000
    years, Thoth for 800 years, Horus for 500 years, Isis for
    100 years, Osiris for 45 years. This may seem like
    fantastical nonsense if one is unaware of the peculiarities
    of ancient timekeeping systems. Besides the solar year,
    there was a lunar calendar system used in the earliest
    calendars, such as the Babylonian. It's possible that
    Manetho was unaware of or forgot to account for this. Many
    modern researchers also make this mistake. If we use the
    lunar year (one month = one year) as accepted in Mesopotamia
    and divide everything by 12, then the reigns of these
    deities are much shorter: Amon-Ra for only 83 years, Thoth
    for 66 years, Horus for 41 years, Isis for 20 years, Osiris
    for just 3.5 years. To avoid listing all pharaohs, let's add
    the reigns of 19 semi-divine beings, considering lunar years
    from Manetho's list. In total, before the first human
    pharaoh, this sums to only about 43 years of rule. That is
    total roughly 325 years of divine and semi-divine rule in
    Egypt. Therefore, if we take the reign of the first confirmed
    human pharaoh, Menes, around 3000 BCE, then the
    beginning of the era of gods in Egypt dates to approximately
    3325 BCE, the era of semi-divine rulers around 3125 BCE,
    and the reign of Horus around 3008 BCE. At the same time,
    between 6000 and 3000 BCE, the Sahara transformed from
    a lush, green paradise into a dead desert. During this period,
    certain deities began to appear in Egypt - beings that
    started building civilization. These beings looked markedly
    different from ordinary humans: they had large, elongated
    heads (dolichocephalic), strange skin colors (gray or
    ash-colored, greenish or bluish), indicating an origin in
    highland plateaus or forested regions. Their skin produced
    little melanin and was not pinkish-white or brown like
    Europeans or Copts. Setting aside fantasy, we arrive at a
    genetic description of the Boscop people. They appeared
    was depicted in early Egyptian art: large, elongated heads
    (dolichocephaly), deeply set eyes, faint brow ridges, and
    unusual skin tones. Their appearance was entirely different
    from the dark-skinned tribes of North Africa. Based on
    anthropological descriptions, skull analysis, and knowledge
    of continental history, we can hypothesize how the Boscop
    people evolved: Around 10,000 - 8,000 BCE, during the golden
    age of the green Sahara, the Boscop civilization flourished
    in the savannas or mountains of present-day Sahara. They
    developed proto-hieroglyphic writing, astronomy,
    mathematics, and complex hydraulic engineering systems to
    manage ancient river waters. Between 6,000 and 5,500 BCE,
    a great drought and metabolic crisis began - marking the start
    of Sahara desertification. Food resources sharply declined.
    For the energy-intensive brains of the Boscop, this meant
    starvation. Their civilization rapidly degraded, and the
    Boscop race began migrating in search of new habitats. From
    5,500 to 5,200 BCE, Boscop colonists reached the Nile again,
    seeing the river's floods as a solution to their main
    problem - creating stable agriculture to sustain their kind.
    From 5,200 to 3,000 BCE, gradual colonization of Nile valley
    tribes occurred. The Boscop used their knowledge to:
    - Design and build irrigation channels.
    - Develop a precise calendar based on Sirius observations
    to predict floods.
    - They lay the foundations for future statehood.
    However, their numbers remained very small. To maintain
    power, they intermarried in local human tribes. Their unique
    genes became diluted over generations. Their physical traits
    (elongated skulls, large heads) gradually disappeared, but
    their knowledge and status were inherited within ruling
    dynasties. Around 3000 BCE, the state was founded. King
    Narmer (Menes), likely a hybrid with significant Boscop
    genes, unified Upper and Lower Egypt. To legitimize their
    rule, the new elite - carrying the legacy from the Boscop -
    deliberately copied their symbols:
    - The double crown Pschent - symbolizing unification and
    stylized as an elongated Boscop skull.
    - The pharaoh's beard - an artificial attribute indicating
    wisdom and divine origin, akin to "ancestor gods."
    - Artificial skull deformation among the nobility - an attempt
    to imitate the sacred head shape of the "founder gods" visually
    confirming their right to rule.
    Thus, ancient Egypt was not a direct copy of the Boscop
    civilization but a remaking - created by sapiens based on
    inherited knowledge and imitation of those they considered
    gods. The problem with artifacts of the Boscop civilization
    is their ephemeral nature. Their main "artifact" was information
    - complex oral traditions, songs, records containing ecosystem
    models, mathematical theorems, or star catalogs. The memory
    of generations was their "library." Their "structures" could
    have been sacred groves in the Sahara, precisely measured
    ceremonial paths, places for contemplation with perfect
    acoustics or views of the sky. Archaeologists might interpret
    these as natural landscapes. If such a civilization existed
    it could have been composed of just a few thousand or even
    hundreds of individuals living in a limited region. They were
    not a "racial" replacement for sapiens but a narrow, highly
    specialized evolutionary branch. Their small population size
    explains why we find no cities. Their material culture was
    highly localized and easily was be erased by time. High
    maternal mortality limited population growth and created
    strong evolutionary pressure against further brain
    enlargement. This was a dead end: newborn Boscop infants
    were even more helpless than modern human babies. This
    required an incredibly complex social structure to care
    for offspring, limiting mobility and population size. Their
    large heads shifted their center of gravity; they were
    unlikely to be runners like sapiens. Their habitat was
    confined to fertile areas. Skin color was a sign of
    degeneration - likely a marker of high inbreeding in a small
    isolated population, making them vulnerable to disease and
    reducing viability. In conclusion, the gods of Egypt were
    not "better" than us - they were different. Their enormous
    brains were an advantage in stable environments but a
    weakness when the world changed. As climate became more
    unpredictable and resources scarcer, flexible, resilient,
    prolific, and energy-efficient Homo sapiens proved far
    better adapted. The history of the Boscop civilization
    is a tragic story of how extreme specialization leads to
    extinction. Perhaps their greatest achievement was
    disappearing so completely that we still doubt whether
    they ever truly existed.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@700:100/20 to roman on Sat Dec 20 10:39:32 2025
    roman wrote to All <=-

    This is merely an my opinion. It is based on my own research
    and conclusions. I do not insist on its correctness but
    invite you to consider the theory of a new chronology of the
    Egyptian civilization, grounded in the study of Manetho's
    dynastic lists and ancient fossils.

    I need to find a book I read years ago, by Greg Bear, that involved
    alternate earths, and a jumper trying to get back to earth - she does,
    except there are 8 pyramids, the Egyptian empire flourished, and it was
    in roughly idustrial revolution-era of development. Interesting
    details...


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