| luinil said: We in America would find out about it when a Nuclear bomb hits us and Israel. Plus we have the interwebz. They had scrolls, which we have not found all of I am sure. History can be lost. Archeology can be tricky, until it is found, it doesn't exist. How do you think the Pyramids were built? There are no definite answers to that but we have ideas. If we don't know how they built the pyramids, perhaps there are other things we don't know? |
The ancients knew what was going on too. Where else do you think we get our history from? They wrote it down temples, in tombs, in scribes, and they told it orally. Whenver you read or learn about history, think about how you got all this infornmation.
Have you heard of the Amarna Letters? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_letters
They are correspondence from the Egyptian pharoah to other rules throughout the world. Egyptians knew what was going on elsewhere, and everybody else knew what was going on in Egypt. If it wasn't letters and political correspondence, it was travelers and traders spreading information, even though I would imagine they would tend to exagerrate.
The Amarna Letters even mention the Habiru, which historians believe refers to the Hebrews. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiru
Habiru was the name given by various Egyptian, Summerian, Akadian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Ugaritic sources. These Habiru are variously described as nomadic or semi-nomadic, rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, and bowmen, servants, slaves, migrant laborers.
An accurate description, considering that the Hebrews invaded and conquered what we know today as Israel as well as from their own stories of themselves, which doesnt take much input to consider exagerrated.
Even if you dont believe the Habiru are Hebrew, why should anyone believe that the ancient world made such detailed observations of the world around them but didn't even bother to mention the Nile flowing red with Blood, hundreds of thousands of children dying in Egypt, and so forth?
