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THE author here follows up certain suggestions in reference to Egyptian chronology which were put forward in his “Scheme of Babylonian Chronology”, but were not worked out. Further study has now shown him the possibilities of a number of clues to the dating of the early Egyptian dynasties. His theory, broadly, is that the ‘births’ of the gods in the Palermo Stone refer to the commencement of planetary cycles, which could probably only occur in historic times at a certain period, reinforced by his interpretation of the evidence of the list of Eratosthenes, and other calendrical and astronomical evidence.
A Scheme of Egyptian Chronology: with Notes thereon including Notes on Cretan and other Chronologies.
By Duncan Macnaughton. Pp. xii + 406 + 19 plates. (London: Luzac and Co., 1932.) 25s.
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A Scheme of Egyptian Chronology: with Notes thereon including Notes on Cretan and other Chronologies . Nature 130, 759 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130759a0
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