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Ancient biblical war verified with Earth's magnetic field - C C - Oct 30, 2022
https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-biblical-war-verified-earth-magnetic-field-1755492
INTRO: A biblical account of an ancient Egyptian military campaign against Israel has been verified using a novel archaeological approach based on reconstructing the Earth's geomagnetic field from points in history thousands of years ago.
The research, which was published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA), was also able to verify other Old Testament accounts of Aramean, Assyrian and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Yoav Vaknin, a researcher from Tel Aviv University who is the lead author of the interdisciplinary study based on his doctoral thesis, said the aim of these investigations was to shed light on events described in the Hebrew Bible—an issue that is hotly debated among experts.
"This debate is relevant to discussions regarding the historicity of the biblical text," Vaknin told Newsweek... (MORE - details)
RE: Ancient biblical war verified with Earth's magnetic field - Magical Realist - Oct 30, 2022
Sounds like yet another belabored attempt to prove the Bible is accurate by bible-thumping archaeologists. Did they ever find those Egyptian chariot wheels in the Red Sea?
RE: Ancient biblical war verified with Earth's magnetic field - Syne - Oct 30, 2022
As if the lack of one discounts any credibility of the other. The definition of a red herring.
RE: Ancient biblical war verified with Earth's magnetic field - Magical Realist - Oct 31, 2022
Ooops....guess not!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chariot-wheels-found-bottom-red-sea/
RE: Ancient biblical war verified with Earth's magnetic field - Syne - Oct 31, 2022
You do understand what a red herring is, right? It's something that is irrelevant to the point being made.
Debunking a single claim does not debunk a whole class of claims. If it did, all UFO claims would have been debunked decades ago. See how that works?