# Velikovsky's "AGES IN CHAOS"-Any of it True?

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**Created:** [May 6, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velikovskys-ages-in-chaos-any-of-it-true/302626 "2005-05-06T00:18:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velikovskys-ages-in-chaos-any-of-it-true/302626/21 "2005-05-08T23:19:06Z")

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> -who was the “Queen of Sheba”? Some say she was a queen of the Sabaens (modern Yemen) or a queen of the ethiopeans. Velikovsky claims that she was actually Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt.

Well, she could have been from a distant land from which we have no record or she could have been invented to give an air of impressive authority to a Solomon who may, himself, be partially or wholly legendary. What Velikovsky has done is to transport all of Hebrew history and Egyptian history to a temporal location that is not supported by _any_ evidence beyond his need to reconcile one unattested story with a different story. He _could_ be right, but lacking anything resembling a coherent testimony (since his time shifting requires that all his other disproven physical situations had to have occurred), there is no reason to believe it and, really, no reason to try to find supporting evidence.

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> -who was the pharoah of the Exodus? Nobody seems to know.

Which may just be because the Exodus (in any form that we would recognize) never occurred.

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