The Theban Empire

Inspired by Velikovsky’s reconstruction of ancient history, Emmet Sweeney demonstrates that an even more radical shift makes perfect sense. Decades of original research aid in reconstructing this history. 

Archaeological evidence, the Amarna Letters, and records from the Mitanni, the Midians, the Hittites, from Egypt, Samaria, Jerusalem and elsewhere, depict matching events, matching biographies, and matching cultural artifacts that demand we accept reality and revise our invented model of antiquity. 

This volume clarifies mysteries centered on Thebes, which is the starting point of Sweeney’s series “Ages in Alignment.” He identifies problems Velikovsky could not solve and brings forward a great body of evidence not even mentioned by Velikovsky which supports his identification of Hatshepsut with the Queen of Sheba. 

These other periods are covered in separate volumes: The Genesis of Israel and Egypt, The Pyramid Age, and Ramessides, Medes and Persians. Although it’s not first in line chronologically, this volume, The Theban Empire, is where this telling of the story begins. 

    “David’s Kingdom of Israel cannot be kept in the history books if the date of the Theban Dynasty of Egypt is not corrected in a scholarly manner as attempted by Emmet Sweeney.” 

   — Prof. Gunnar Heinsohn


“A Herculean task [of historical research],” and “A worthy successor and expansion to Immanuel Velikovsky’s ‘Ages in Chaos’.”


   — Prof. Lewis Greenberg