re: #140 KiTA

Ha! I read some Velikovsky in high school, just for the Lulz. He is a.) nuts, and b.) writes in a fashion that almost sounds plausible unless you have some vague knowledge of the subject at hand.

I still remember one of the big points in Ages in Chaos hinged on Hatshepsut being the Queen of Sheba and hence a large chunk of history was actually a repeat of earlier history. His evidence? When Hatshepsut sent ships to Punt to bring back stuff she was shown next to the ships sending them off, but really she would have been shown on the ships except that she was too large to fit (Egyptians showed important people much larger than peasants.) Now, I’m not an Egyptologist, nor was I back then, but even I knew that they just plopped the giant pharaohs onto sufficiently large chariots or ships or whatever. They didn’t have them standing around nearby, unless that is actually what they were doing at the time.
That was his only evidence for this massive historical revision.