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==Chariot Wheels== | ==Chariot Wheels== | ||
The Bible records that Joseph was given a chariot to travel through Egypt. Most historians, however, would claim that the chariot was introduce to Egypt by the Hyksos in the 15th dynasty. | |||
If Joseph and Imhotep were the same person, this would mean that chariots existed in Egypt as early as the third dynasty. | |||
In the third dynasty, only high officials like the pharaoh and his chancellor / sage / vizier were afforded a chariot to travel in. | |||
Chariots in the 3rd dynasty were not horse drawn, they were carried by a procession of servants. | |||
''The Hebrew word (merkabah) in the Bible can be translated as ‘chariot’ or ‘riding seat’. It does not distinguish between a vehicle that is horse drawn or a vehicle that is carried.'' | |||
The enigma of chariots in the third dynasty is, therefore, easily explained. | |||
The Bible records that all chariots prior to the Exodus were lost in the Red Sea. Most of the 12 dynasty artwork in which chariots could have been depicted has also been lost. | |||
No discoveries horse drawn chariots have been found prior to the 15th dynasty (except for those found by Wyatt at the bottom of the Red Sea in 1978). This would tend to suggest that the Exodus took place just before the 15th dynasty. One would not expect to find chariots of dynasties prior to the Exodus because they were all destroyed at the time of the Exodus. | No discoveries horse drawn chariots have been found prior to the 15th dynasty (except for those found by Wyatt at the bottom of the Red Sea in 1978). This would tend to suggest that the Exodus took place just before the 15th dynasty. One would not expect to find chariots of dynasties prior to the Exodus because they were all destroyed at the time of the Exodus. | ||
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Also supporting a 13th dynasty exodus is the prolific use of mudbricks in the 12th dynasty and the finding of a slave village at Kahun that was rapidly evacuated in the 13th dynasty when Neferhotep I was ruling (as evidenced by scarabs found by Petrie). Amenemhet III has the credentials to be the pharaoh of Moses birth and the pharaoh that Moses fled from. Sobeknefru has the credentials to be Moses foster mother and Amenemhet IV has the credentials to be Moses himself! | Also supporting a 13th dynasty exodus is the prolific use of mudbricks in the 12th dynasty and the finding of a slave village at Kahun that was rapidly evacuated in the 13th dynasty when Neferhotep I was ruling (as evidenced by scarabs found by Petrie). Amenemhet III has the credentials to be the pharaoh of Moses birth and the pharaoh that Moses fled from. Sobeknefru has the credentials to be Moses foster mother and Amenemhet IV has the credentials to be Moses himself! | ||
Horse drawn chariots were used for military purposes and were not introduced until the 12th dynasty. Most of the chariots of the 12 & 13th dynasty were lost in the Red Sea at the time of the Exodus and paintings depicting horse drawn chariots in the 12th dynasty did not survive either. | |||
It is hardly surprising then that there are no findings of horse draw chariots before the Hyksos (15th dynasty) unless, of course, one accepts that the chariot wheels found in the Red Sea by Wyatt in 1978 were from the 12th and 13th dynasty. | |||
Historians and archaeologist have, therefore, erroneously credited the Hyksos (15th dynasty) with the introduction of the horse drawn chariot to Egypt. Chariot wheels have been found at the bottom of the Red Sea were incorrectly dated because of this assumption. | |||
== A workers village built during the time of Senusret II was discovered by Petrie at Kahun == | == A workers village built during the time of Senusret II was discovered by Petrie at Kahun == | ||
