Back When Egyptian Pyramids Were 1,000 Years Old already and Rome Was a Few Mud Huts

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

  Inside an Egyptian pyramid where a pharaoh is buried
    

   Painting from the burial chamber of Sennedjem, c. 1200 BCE, 3,222 years ago

Egypt was visited by all the Jewish patriarchs.  It is probable that the 1st Hebrew immigration into Egypt was connected with the period of domination there of the Semitic Hyksos dynasty of the 18th to 16th centuries BCE.  The 18th century BCE was the century which lasted from 1800 BCE to 1701 BCE. Millennium: 2nd millennium BCE. Centuries: 19th century BCE; 18th century BCE ...Egypt was at that period closely involved in Canaanite affairs, as is shown by the Tel el Amarna Letters which describe the background of and allude to the 1st Israelite incursions there. This was almost 4,000 years ago.   

The Middle East had a head start on Rome, the city that produced the greatest army in the world and was able to take Jerusalem after occupying it.  

Homo sapiens, meaning us, did not appear on earth until about 150,000 years ago.  They managed to enter Europe about 45,,000 years ago. The end of the last Ice Age happened 13,,000 years ago.

 The earth wobbled on its orbit and there was a sudden severe cold snap between 11,000 and 10,000 years ago, which may have forced the small human population back down south.  The boundary of the ice, which had retreated to more or less its present latitudes, began to spread south again.  The sea was frozen right down to northern Spain and the plains of northern Europe reduced once again to barren and inhospitable tundra.   This cold phase lasted 1,000 years.  

Then the earth started warming up again and human could once again resume the occupation of the exposed continents.  

Predynastic Egypt is conventionally said to begin about 6000 BCE. That's about 8,022 years ago.  Between 5300 and 3500 BCE. the wet phase declined and increasing aridity pushed the Saharan peoples into locations with reliable water, such as oases and the Nile Valley. Egypt was just below the freezing line of seas, so was more hospitable to settlement.  

Iraq's land held the beginnings of our history, and is called the Cradle of Civilization.  Humans founded Uruk and Eridu, what is now Iraq, nearly 6,000 years ago, leaving behind literature, astronomy, and mathematics. Abraham had come from his home in Ur on the Euphrates River.  

Moses recorded this information in Genesis, the 1st of his 5 books of Moses or Torah, also found as the Old Testament. He goes on to explain the Israelite move into Canaan, the Palestine the Romans name for Judah and the land surrounding the capital of the earlier Israel and its surrounding land, Samaria.  This was due to the Assyrian attack on Israel in 721 BCE, that was only 2,743 years ago.  Israel was the result of their Exodus from Egypt, thought to have started 480 years before the Jewish 1st Temple was built by King Solomon (ruled from 961-920 BCE)

Note the legend of Romulus and Remus being kept alive by the wolf who found them.  When Romulus and Remus became adults, they decided to found a city where the wolf had found them. The brothers quarrelled over where the site should be and Remus was killed by his brother. This left Romulus the sole founder of the new city and he gave his name to it – Rome.  (Well, German shepherds are my favorite dog, which came from wolves, and a female can be very motherly.  Could this wolf have been the pet of the twins' parents? )  We'll never know.                                       

Jewish population in Rome goes back to 139 BCE, so Jewish traders lived there before Romans destroyed their Jerusalem in 70 CE.  Jews were in Italy since 2nd century BCE, first in Rome and then in southern ports handy for shipping and on inland trade routes.                             

 Catacombs in Rome attest existence of some 12 different Jewish communities during Classical period. Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BCE and the 6th century CE centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known as the Greco-Roman world.

There have been discoveries of archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Rome area from approximately 14,000 years ago which was during the Ice Age.  While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BCE, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it a major human settlement for almost three millennia or 3,000 years ago,  and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe.  Rome is generally considered to be the "cradle of Western civilization and Christian culture", and the center of the Catholic Church.

Civil war amongst the Ptolemies and the death of Cleopatra, the last reigning ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, lead to the conquest and annexation of Egypt by the Roman Empire in 30 BCE.. Egypt's history includes Rome's occupation of it with Cleopatra becoming involved with Julius Caesar and bearing his son, then with Mark Anthony.                                

     Siege of Jerusalem by Pompey-The Siege of Jebus (c.1000 BCE)- about 3,022 years ago.  

The first recorded siege of Jerusalem siege, involved the taking of the city, by the Jews from the Canaanites.  According to the Old Testament 1 Book of Chronicles, the Israelites under King David captured the city of Jebus from the Jebusites, a Canaanite tribe. David renamed the city,  Jerusalem and made it his capital city. David ruled from1010 BCE to 970 BCE, about 3,032 years ago.  

Roman general Pompey conquered Jerusalem and its surroundings by 63 BCE. The Romans deposed the ruling Hasmonean dynasty of Judaea (in power from c. 140 BCE) and the Roman Senate declared Herod the Great "King of the Jews" in c. 40 BCE..  By 70 CE, Rome, occupier of Jerusalem for about 70 years, then burned down the Temple of the Jews and destroyed the city as well. 

Then, Mount Vesuvius is famous for destroying the ancient city of Pompeii back in 79 CE., 1953 years ago.   It was like a response to what Rome had done to Solomon's 2nd Temple that was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE and then rebuilt by the returning Jerusalem captives in 538 BCE after being held captive for 50 years.  

It is well known that Earth takes approximately 24 hours to rotate on its axis. But this established fact is seeing some major seismic changes. According to scientists, on July 29, Earth completed a full spin in less than 24 hours, about 1.59 milliseconds shorter than its standard timeframe. Notably, this is not the first time that the blue planet has spun faster. Atomic clocks have, however, recently revealed that the Earth's rotation is rapidly accelerating.  In 2020, Earth recorded its shortest month and July 19 was recorded to be the shortest day of that year. It was 1.47 milliseconds under 24 hours. 

Our universe is on a delicate balance to create life.  Homo sapiens, already 150,000 years old,  were not even the 1st model.  Neandertals existed before us of whom we share a few genes with, even today.  

Kebara, paleoanthropological site on Mount Carmel in northern Israel that has yielded a trove of Neanderthal bones and associated artifacts.   The Kebara cave was occupied by humans and various other animals from the Middle Paleolithic Period (approximately 200,000 to 40,000 years ago) through the Upper Paleolithic Period (about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago). The more-recent Upper Paleolithic and Holocene levels of the site, known as the Kebaran and Natufian levels, were excavated in the 1930s. They contained a series of human burials plus a number of partially cremated remains.

The Neanderthals have a long evolutionary history. The earliest known examples of Neanderthal-like fossils are around 430,000 years old. The best-known Neanderthals lived between about 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, after which all physical evidence of them vanishes except in our genes.

Our history encompasses a vast amount of time.  We've been molded into the people we see today which took time and patience.  Are we going to destroy it all ourselves with atomic bombs or even polluted air? I guess we're not so godlike after all if we do such a thing at the height of our evolutionary development.  We're still pretty dumb if that happens.  

                          Earth in Milky Way

So, just how old is Earth? By dating the rocks in Earth's ever-changing crust, as well as the rocks in Earth's neighbors, such as the moon and visiting meteorites, scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years.The Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system.  Besides the Sun and its planets, some of the nearest G-type stars known to have planets include 61 Virginis, HD 102365, HD 147513, 47 Ursae Majoris, Mu Arae, and Tau Ceti.

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.iraqiembassy.us/video/iraq-cradle-of-civilization

https://www.britannica.com/place/Kebara

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-were-the-neanderthals.html#:~:text=The%20Neanderthals%20have%20a%20long,physical%20evidence%20of%20them%20vanishes.

Book:  Saxons, Vikings, and Celts-the genetic roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes

https://www.space.com/24854-how-old-is-earth.html#:~:text=So%2C%20just%20how%20old%20is,range%20of%2050%20million%20years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-type_main-sequence_star

https://www.wionews.com/science-technology/earth-is-suddenly-spinning-faster-than-usual-and-it-can-spell-doom-for-us-502483?utm_source=izooto&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=Earth%20rotation