![]() 1500 BC Thutmose III says that Ra has took him on “a flight on his Boat” (Shem): the original cult of Shem will be replaced by that of obelisks and Eagles. From 1530 to 1160 there is the so- called “Kassite period” which the Elamites cut out. 1531 BC The Hittites of Murshiloi I sack Babylon. According to the new histories, instead, the New Kingdom would have started in 1194 BC. 1539 BC The New Kingdom begins in Egypt, founded by the eighteenth dynasty. Mycenae, spared from the consequences of the disaster becomes the new power in the Mediterranean there was the worship of a goddess whose iconography remsembles INANNA (a Sumerian deity). ![]() Climatic mutations lead to dramatic changes in the Nile's floods: Egypt weakens and migrations to Mesopotamia are recorded. 1628 BC Explosion of the Santorini volcano. According to new histories the Jews' exodus from Egypt takes place during the XIII dynasty, reign of the pharaoh Dudimose. According to traditional histories, the right period would instead be 1817-1772 BC. 1682-1637 BC According to the new histories, in Egypt reigns Amenembat III (Twelfth Dynasty) whose vizier maybe was the biblical Joseph who had also served Senuseret III. ![]() The official language was Akkadian while the cuneiform Sumerian was considered a “sacred language”. ![]()
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