CONTENTS
SOCIETY NEWS ………………………………………………………………………….. 2
ARTICLES:
Global Warming in a Climate of Ignorance by Wal Thornhill ………………………….. 3
MBA City Possibly Destroyed by a Cosmic Airburst by William I. Thompson III …….. 9
The Writings of the Historians of the Roman and Early Medieval Periods and their Relevance to the Chronology of the First Millennium AD, Part IIa by Trevor Palmer … 11
Ramses III, Nectanebo I, and the So-Called Demotic Chronicle by Donald Keith Mills . 20
Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology by Robert M. Porter ……………… 30
The Venus Cycle by Peter Fairlie-Clarke ………………………………………………….. 34
The 364-Day Calendar (Year of Weeks) by Henry Zemel ……………………………….. 39
BOOK REVIEWS:
Magicians of the Gods, reviewed by Laurence Dixon ……………………………………… 41
From the Deep Ocean Above, reviewed by Trevor Palmer ……………………………………. 44
BOOKSHELF
The Destruction of Sodom: What We Have learned from Tall el-Hammam and its Neighbors ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 45
LETTER:
Barry Curnock ………………………………………………………………………………. 46
Study Group Report ……………………………………………………………………………… 47
EDITORIAL ADDRESS:
EDITORIAL TEAM: Trevor Palmer (Editorial Co-ordinator), Phillip Clapham, Laurence Dixon, David Roth.
PRODUCTION: Barry Curnock
MEMBERSHIP: Phillip Clapham, 45 Mary’s Mead, Hazlemere, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP15 7DS, UK.
GENERAL ENQUIRIES: Barry Curnock, 27 Rosemount Road, Flax Bourton, Bristol, BS48 1UP, UK.
SIS web-site: www.sis-group.org.uk