Dr Immanuel Velikovsky Had Pharaoh Tirhakah Contemporaneous With Horemheb



Taken from university thesis:http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5973

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Ethiopians

The appearance of Horemheb in an inscription with Tirhakah ruler of Ethiopia, a

contemporary of king Hezekiah and Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:9), led Velikovsky to

conclude that Horemheb had belonged to an era much later than the late C14th BC

accredited to him by the conventional chronology, and that he was in actual fact a

contemporary of this Tirhakah of the 25

th (Ethiopian) in the C7th BC. Thus he wrote in

an unpublished work:

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… In this reconstruction Haremhab and Tirhaka, the Ethiopian, are

contemporaries; in the conventional version of history they are separated by more

than six centuries, Haremhab being dated to the late fourteenth and Tirhaka to the

early seventh. A certain scene, carved on one of the walls of a small Ethiopian

temple at Karnak, shows them together. The scene proves not only the

contemporaneity of Haremhab and Tirhaka, but also permits to establish a short

period in their relations from which it dates. ….

Given, though, that Egyptian monuments sometimes represented two pharaohs of

completely different eras, together, e.g. “… Egyptian artwork shows [the 12

th dynasty’s]

Sesostris I seated side by side with [the 18

th dynasty’s] Amenhotep I …”,684 I cannot

agree with Velikovsky that the particular carving to which he referred necessarily “proves

the contemporaneity of Haremhab and Tirhaka”.

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“Haremhab’s Contemporaries”.

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According to C. McDowell, ‘The Egyptian Prince Moses’, p. 5, fig. 1.

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Though I do believe that these two kings were far closer in time (approximately a century

apart) than the “more than six centuries” gap separating them in the conventional history,

and that there was some sort of relationship between them.
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