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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Huh? Written history begins around 2,000 years before these events. What are you talking about?

A number of the relevant pieces of information are the details in contemporary written accounts from Egyptian or Hittite sources which range from royal records of conflicts to letters written between countries.

That's how we know for example that there was actually a single day battle between Egypt and the sea peoples with Libya which Egypt wins and takes captives from seven years before an usurper Pharoh conquered Egypt. There's literally dozens of pages written about that battle by Merneptah. Which then bears a striking resemblance to the mythical story in the Odyssey of Odysseus fighting a one day battle against Egypt where he's taken captive exactly seven years before "a certain Phrygian" shows up to try to ransom him to Libya.

We even have records from Ramses III which describe the end of the 19th dynasty around the time of this usurper as Egypt having been conquered with outside help, switching to a form of government of city state governors, and "making the gods like men." Claims that resemble the Phoenician form of city state government emerging at this time and the claims of Phoenician euhemerism "from around the time of the Trojan War" in Philio of Byblos.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, but it's pretty shit. It's far from reliable, the Bible counts as part of the historical record and we are reasonably sure there weren't really any giants.

The rest is all Biblio of Biblios, I'm now aware what me rattling off a bunch of science information must sound like to people.

I was supporting your position anyway, you massive, swinging autist.