Over the previous century the first New Jerusalem experiment of moving the Temple Shrine (Holy of Holies) down the river from its historical place in Thebes / Karnak to what is now the elbow in the Nile called Tel Al Amarna, but in Bible Days this region was the scene of a spiritual rebirth of epic proportions and was known as Akhetaten, City of the Sun. By 850 BC a large second wave had left Egypt for the Land of Israel; the first exodus of this generation had been led by Yuya who was renamed Reuel in Palestine, while Akhenaten led an even larger group into the region and took over Jerusalem and the entire areas we would later know as Samaria and Galilee, and the region south through Bethlehem and down to Hebron, which was the welcoming centre for new arrivals. He was reigning as King Rehoboam, and just like had happened in Egypt, initial europhia waned over the months and the difficult environment meant that leadership was constantly being challenged, and Musa Amenhotep IV was now getting up in years.
In India the zero had been invented around 876BC, and though literacy was rising in many nations and the Greek alphabet was taking a form that would soon go international, numeracy was still the realm of magi and wizards. The Arabic numeral system together with the Hindu zero would revolutionize mathematics, laying a foundation for global science that is used unto this day. Within seventy years Indian mathematician Baudhayana's teachings and theory would signal a major leap forward for humanity and pre-date the works of Pythagoras by three centuries.
The Kingdom of Van Urartu rising in Armenia would become a spiritual foundation for the royal family for centuries, even supporting Kings from the families of Jesus in the first and second century and Mohammed in the seventh and eighth centuries, through the Prophets family ties to King Heraclius. Armenia was now becoming a buffer between the European / Middle earth sea nations (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Carthage, Gaul, Spain) and sometime enemies in Assyria to the south and Persia to the East. Armenians were considered even more neutral than Jews, and the nation was something of a Switzerland of the Roman and other eras. yes they were drawn into wars, but the learned to seek peacekeepers as leaders. King Ashoka and King Aristobulus had each come and gone, leaving a legacy of good government and prudent leadership, yet regression was everywhere and people were acting like Jesus had never been here! Ahhh, we are getting ahead of the story.
The nineteenth and twentieth dynasties and the stories of Ramses and of the Chosen are likely where we are headed next, n'est-ce pas?
