UnderWater Archaeological Discoveries Tend to Confirm Revised Chronology!!!
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Constance, Germany - Archaeologists are beginning to realize that a treasure trove of sunken ships spanning long ages may litter the bottom of the `Bodensee' lake. This realization got under way when in 1992 near Immenstadt a 14th century sailing boat was discovered.

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June 8, 2001

Frank Goddio made known his most recent finds some 4 miles off the coast of Egypt. It appears that the following antiquities were found:

1) a large stela of ca. 19-20 feet in height that was in some 15 pieces, which dates from the era of Cleopatra and had not been read.
2) An intact smaller stela, ca. 6.5 feet in height, and nearly of the same type as the `Naukratis stela' in the Cairo Museum. This new stela bears the inscription, "Herakleion-Thonis" or as another source stated, "Rahinet", identifying the site. This stela has written on it the edict of Nekhnebef, the conventional Nectanebo I.
3) three broken, pink granite statues, 20 feet tall. One represents Hapi, the second an unidentified pharaoh, and the third an unidentified queen/goddess.
4) the remains of ca. 10 ships.

One of his most impressive discoveries was the stela described as a decree of Nectanebo I to levy taxes on Greeks. Now, wouldn't it be nice if Nectanebo would tell us something in his own words about the great wars he was supposed to have fought against the Libyans, Persians and Greeks and won? If not on this stela may be on another one? On the other hand he would be quite unable to tell us anything about these wars since the author of this stela was the `shoe-in' modern historians had chosen to represent Nectanebo, but who in reality was a highly placed official working for his own and Persian interests. In our opinion his story of having been involved in military affairs and wars will never be found since it is already told by the true Nectanebo I, Ramses III.

Dramatic New Evidence Tends to Support Revised Chronology-Notice this fragment of a statue of Merneptah is more closely connected to Late Period (Greek) times than conventional chronology would like to see it. Why a statue of this king should be at this location would make little sense unless during his reign this statue was located near to the future Alexandria and in time was moved to its new location because Merneptah was well known to the Greeks. In revised view this points to the Merneptah-Apries-Hophra equation. Why a statue of a late 13th century king should be found there would truly represent a puzzle.
19th/26th Dynasty
Start of Babylonian Period
19th/26th Dynasty cont.
21st Dynasty
20th/30th Dyn.
 665 - 609
609 - 569
569 - 561
561 - 526
526 - 		Seti the Great/Psammeticus
Ramses II/Necho I
Merneptah/Hophra/Apries
Amasis
Inaros/Ramses XI
From Herihor to Si-Amon; Ramses III/Nectanebo
Herakleion Stela
The Merneptah Evidence
 The Classical Greek and Islamic Evidence!!
Underwater Archaeology website

See G.F. Bass, `Nautical Archaeology and Biblical Archaeology', S. Vinson, `Ships in the Ancient Mediterranean' in BA, Vol. 53, Mar 1990. The whole issue is on the same subject and features a map of shipwreck locations which include: Caesarea, Ma'agan Michael, Dor, Newe-Yam, Athlit, Ginosar (Lake Kinnereth), Piraeus (Greece), Yass1 Ada, Serce Liman1, Ulu Burun, Cape Gelidonya and Kyrenia. For more text and illustrations on `Underwater Archaeology' Worldwide see James P. Delgado, `Lure of the Deep', Archaeology, May/Jun 1996, p. 10-47. The article tells about the different high tech submersibles, the depths they can reach and which projects they particiapted in.
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