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Ages in Chaos
by Immanuel Velikovsky
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Buccaneer Books (1990-06)
ISBN: 0899667279
EAN: 9780899667270
Dewy Decimal #: 930
Hardcover: 342 pages
SKU: 41654
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: THE HARDCOVER BOOK! THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION. Doubleday, 1952. EARLY PRINT. Volume 1. WITH TERRIFIC MAPS! HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING, DUST JACKET and pages are in EXCELLENT CONDITION, clean and tight. Ships rapidly w/free tracking. Great packaging. Overseas by air mail.
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Customer Reviews
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placing events and peoples on a timeline
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-10-09
Any book about lineages and dating and placing kings and events in ancient history is going to be a bit dry, not matter how well the subject is dealt with. Of the three major works by Velikovsky, this is probably the driest. However it is still an essential work for the serious researcher.
All too often we get told by the mainstream archeologists and anthropologists that such and such event occured at such and such a time. They will never tell you that they are not sure of these "facts". So all too often we assume they have done the research and their theories are baced on solid evidence. For example did you know that in almost all instances no two pharoes are positivley placed correctly in a time line...and that even thier direct heir is usualy not known. Behind closed doors Egyptologists rearange the kings of Egypt on a timeline and the order we see is only their best guess based on consensus.
Velikovsky in "Ages in Chaos" shows clearly there is a lot of chronolgogy that is incorrect or not even certain, far more then any Archeaologist would likely admit. Anyone researching ancient history would be well advised to consider this mans research and findings. And stop listening to the anti Velikovsky rhetoric. This man did his research. Perhaps some of his conclusions are incorrect, but he made honest apprasials of the evidence he had at his disposal, and some of these conclusions were so counter to accepted chronolgies that he basicaly caught the mainstream theorists with their pants down.
If for no other reason this book is valuble to the student to be willing to re-evaluate the evidence. If a "fact" has an 85% chance of being correct, that means it has a 15% chance of being 100% wrong! This man checked that 15% and found a lot of incorrect stuff there and kudos to him for daring to make the path plain. And considering the vociferous reception he got for his work suggests that he hit a sore spot indeed!
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Velikovsky was a quack
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-08-20
6 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
Although Velikovsky's absurd astronomical theories have attracted considerable critical attention, his equally ridiculous revision of ancient chronology has been mostly neglected. This is perhaps unfortunate, as this stuff is incredibly silly, and a good debunking would be fun to read. At any rate, this book is full of patently absurd notions. He brings Egypt's 19th Dynasty, normally dated to the 13th century BC, down 5 centuries or so and makes it identical to the 26th Dynasty. Seti I becomes Psammetichus I, Ramses II becomes Necho, and so forth (I can't recall the specific other identifications). To make this work, he then has to turn the Hittites into the Neo-Babylonians, (which is, to say the least, geographically ridiculous, if nothing else) whose own chronology has to be messed up to get it to fit right.
The whole thing is just a complete mess if you think about it at all, but in spite of this Velikovsky still manages to have people who believe in these ridiculous theories. So, if you like crackpot theories, this is probably a good book (although you would perhaps be wise to read his other books first), but don't read it expecting to actually learn anything about history.
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Mistakes Galore
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-02-16
4 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble but Velikovsky's work regarding ancient Egypt is not scientific & full of errors.
Anyone interested in egyptology or history of Ancient Egypt mustnt depend on Velikovsky;s work as he fantasizes alot & mixes myth with what he wants to be fact, not to mention lying through his teeth about several papyruses allegedly speaking of the exodus, while ommiting a few words that bring down his theory to the ground only to make things go his way. The guy seriously lied & is no way an authority in the field he wrote.
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RAMSES, BABYLON AND THE CHALDEANS
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-06-11
14 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ramses II And His Time takes up the story from the end of Velikovsky's book Oedipus And Akhnaton, but can also be read by itself. In this book the author revises the period of the Chaldean or Neo-Babylonian empire. He makes a rather convincing case that these Chaldeans were not indigenous to the city of Babylon and that they were really the Hittites of Asia Minor. He draws parallels between the emperors of Babylon and the Chaldean kings. At the same time in Egypt, Velikovsky identifies the 19th dynasty of Seti and Ramses with the 26th dynasty of Psamtik, Necho and Apries. This period in Velikovsky's revised history starts with the first confrontation between what the author considers the contemporaries Ramses II and Nebuchadnezzar and ends with the Persian conquest of Libya and Egypt, from where the story continues in the aforementioned book Peoples Of The Sea. In between there are informative discussions of the origin of the alphabet, the pictographic script of the Hittites, the ruins of Yazilikaya and other monuments of Asia Minor, the Israel stele of Mernepthah and the lamentations of Jeremiah. The epilogue is devoted to the counterarguments that Velokovsky expected from the critics. The pieces here include titles like Tanis And Sais, How Long Did Seti And Ramses II Reign?, Two Suppiluliumas, Bronze And Iron, Scarabs And Stratigraphy. The synchronical tables that follow lays out his revised history of this era for Egypt, Judah, Chaldea, Lydia-Phrygia, Media-Persia and Greece. There are 30 black and white illustrations including the Steles of Essarhaddon and Ramses II at Nahr El Kelb, the sarcophagus of Ahiram, The Lion Gate Of Hattussas, The Israel Stele Of Merneptah and The Mummy Of Ramses II. The book concludes with a thorough index. The fact that Ramses II lived at the end of the 7th century BC and was the same person as Pharao Necho II of the Scriptures may not be widely accepted, but Velikovsky's brilliant writing style certainly sparked a renewed interest in ancient history and still provides great reading pleasure. I recommend this classic of alternative history to all readers who are interested in the ancient history of the Middle East, Egyptology and biblical archaeology.
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The Forgotten Empire
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-03-03
13 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book should be read by anyone about to read anything regarding the Hittites, by Bible students, or anyone interested in ancient Egypt or ancient history in general. Ramses II is one of the best known names from the New Kingdom, and has an entirely undeserved role in most attempts to synchronize the Old Testament with what passes for the conventional chronology of the ancient Near East.
This volume of the multivolume "Ages In Chaos" discusses the identical nature of the 19th and 26th dynasties of Egypt's New Kingdom. The basic framework is "Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History", published in 1945 and available online. Lesser lights have tried to revise the nineteenth century's version of the dynasties -- the pseudochronology still in use today -- but only succeed where they follow Velikovsky.
Perhaps the lapse of decades after the 1952 publication of "Ages In Chaos" caused this later volume to be poorly received, but it could be read first without any disorientation. All of Velikovsky's books are available on the used search engines, and it is generally only a matter of time before they become available again.
See also Velikovsky's other works (new and used), and:
-:- The Synchronized Chronology by Roger Henry
-:- A New Approach to the Chronology of Biblical History from Abraham to Samuel by Gerald E. Aardsma
-:- Pharaohs and Kings by David Rohl
-:- Centuries of Darkness by Peter James et al
-:- Murder of Tutankhamen by Bob Brier
-:- Giving Goliath His Due by Neal Bierling (suffers from the author's reliance on the conventional pseudochronology, available online)
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