At https://www.livecience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyp/5-000-year-old-rock-art-from-ancient-egypt-depicts-terrifying-conquest-of-the-sinai-peninsula … archaeologists have found a 5000 year old piece of rock art in what is now the Sinai Desert, that depicts the conquest of the region. They established the god Min, their version of the bull god, as ‘master of the copper area’. Min is believed, in this context, to be a representation of the Egyptian ruler. Boats were often also a metaphor for the pharaoh, and this is depicted also. However, it was the god that traversed the sky in his boat, or ark, and probably only became, much later, a symbolic representation of pharaoh = the god on Earth, or his earthly representative – or manifestation. Was the god seen traversing the sky during the period around 3000BC [5000 years ago]. What the so called conquest represented was the prize of copper and turquoise, freely available in the Sinai. We may note this period also defines the onset of the Early Bronze Age in Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and the Aegean. Copper was vital in order to produce bronze alloys.
At https://phys.org/news/2026-01-rethinking-troy-years-peace-epic.html … this is a backwards look at the thought to be site of ancient Troy, Hissarlik. We are told the usual narrative that concentrates on the Iliad and the Odyssey, thought to be at the end of the LB period, is out of date. In fact, they say there was only one comprehensive destruction of Troy and that occurred in 2350BC. There are nine layers on the Hissarlik mound, representing the whole of the Bronze Age and the initial phases of the Iron Age. Most of the archaeology from those layers is mostly ignored as the seige of Troy always takes a prominent place. Well, that is mainstream for you. In non mainstream sources there is plenty of speculation on all the periods in question, including exactly where in those layers the seige of Troy belongs. Assuming of course it really happened as in the epic poem and was not a combination of myth and history. Interesting that they pick the date of 2350BC as this is the old calibrated date set by dendrochronology. Modern IntCal methodologies would redate that somewhat earlier, I would have thought. There were in fact two separate bouts of site destructions at the end of the EB period. I assume this is also reflected in the archaeology at Hissarlik – but that might not be so. Baillie, the Belfast chronologist, had them at 2350 and 2200/2150BC, making a link with site destructions elsewhere in the Near and Middle East, and in Anatolia. This is in fact what was suggested by the French archaeologist Claude Schaeffer back in 1948. His chronology was apparently supported by dendrochronology – actual dates aside. Schaeffer did of course blame earthquakes – and therefore it would be possible that some of the dates were spread out. Neither would earthquakes require major destruction levels – unless they were on the epicentre.
At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/nebra-sky-disc-the-worlds-oldest-depiction-of-astronomical-phenomena-and-it-may-depict-the-pleiades …. this is from the archive at Live Science – but in this case, temporarily revisited. It is a bronze object , flattened into a disc 12.6 inches in diameter and decorated with gold add ons. These include what is thought to be the Sun, as well as a crescent moon, a boat [or sky boat] as well as a collection of stars. Some of these depict the seven sisters, or Pleiades, an important group in world mythology. The general location of the Pleiades is associated by Clube and Napier with the emergence of the great comet they envisage journeying around the solar syste. The meteor stream itself is in the solar system and the Pleiades way out in the universe. It is background wall paper you might say. The trails of debris shed by the comet as it came close to the Sun on numerous occasions are still with us and known as the Taurids. Yhe day time Taurids occur near midsummer and the night or dusk Taurids occur in the crack in the year – the origin of Divali in India and trick and treat in Europe [All Souls on the church calendar and the Wild Hunt in mythology].
The disc was made in around 5 stages, it is thought. The origin disc may just have contained the crescent moon and Sun [or full moon] and 32 stars. Later, two