Around Five Thousand Years Ago, There was a World Wide Flood?

Here I have rebooted the last table I gave Ussher's chronology. Namely with other BC years for Biblical chronology.

And inserted a few hints about how fitting or less fitting this chronology would be:

I 2957 BC

2.142 pmc, + 31 800 years, 34757 BC

II 2803 BC

25.609 pmc, + 11 250 years, 14053 BC

III 2650 BC

40.195 pmc, + 7550 years, 10200 BC

Low feature in Göbekli Tepe

9559 BP, 7609 BC

IV 2496 BC

54.721 pmc, + 5000 years, 7496 BC

High Feature in Göbekli Tepe

8430 BP, 6480 BC

V 2343 BC

63.751 pmc, + 3700 years, 6043 BC

VI 2189 BC

72.689 pmc, + 2650 years, 4839 BC

VII 2036 BC

78.256 pmc, + 2050 years, 4086 BC

Ur of Woolley starts

a little before Birth of Abraham

Narmer's raw carbon date

before 3332, around Birth of Isaac

VIII 1882 BC

83.844 pmc, + 1450 years, 3332 BC

IX 1728 BC

87.316 pmc, + 1100 years, 2828 BC

Date of Joseph

is close to a raw carbon date of Djoser

X 1575 BC

90.665 pmc, + 810 years, 2385 BC

Exodus (1510 BC)

would carbon date between 2385 and 2041, if we had a trace of it.

XI 1421 BC

92.752 pmc, + 620 years, 2041 BC

XII 1268 BC

94.992 pmc, + 430 years, 1698 BC

Trojan War Date 1190 BC

falls between 1114 and 1268 BC, which means the carbon date would be between 1424 and 1698 BC. Could we be dealing with Troy V?

XIII 1114 BC

96.376 pmc, + 310 years, 1424 BC

Both Troy dates (VIh and VIIa)

from Hisarlik fall between 961 BC and 1114 BC, since carbon dated between 1171 BC and 1424 BC.

XIV 961 BC

97.486 pmc, + 210 years, 1171 BC

XV 807 BC

98.188 pmc, + 150 years, 957 BC

XVI 654 BC

99.298 pmc, + 60 years, 714 BC

XVII 500 BC

100 pmc, no extra years, 500 BC

The greatest weakness of this idea is perhaps introducing Troy V as the Troy of Priam. I don't know any archaeologist who suggests that.

So, on this view, either Trojan War would be a myth, or a chronologically displaced story, or we need to look harder at possible traces of destruction in Troy V - and I don't think looking other places than Hissarlik is a great option.

Hans Georg Lundahl
ut supra

(or, as seen on blog : ut infra).