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Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC).
612 BC
The Babylonian kingdom begins with Nebuchadnezzar and continues with
Nabonidus.
597 BC
Jews are deported to Babylon. In the sixth century BC a true monotheistic
thought starts being professed simultaneously among Israelites, Babylonians
and Persians.
592-550 BC
Ezekiel has the vision of the celestial chariot (cf. Ez 1:4-27).
539 BC
Persians (Cyrus) conquer Babylon and Jews can return to their homeland.
485-465 BC
In Persia reigns Xerxes, son of Darius the Great: Xerxes is identified with the
“Assuerus“ of the biblical book of Esther, the queen who lived in the great
imperial palace of Susa (Persia).
450 BC
The priests of Thebes list to Herodotus 341 generations of kings, covering a
total of 11,340 years rule in Egypt. First reign the gods, then the semi-gods,
Horus' fellows, and later on follow the human dynasties: pharaohs consider
themselves as gods' “direct descendants“ and, as such, legitimated to govern
and worthy being immortal. Is it likely to think that mummification be the
attempt at reproducing something got lost along with the departure of “gods”,
in terms of both memory and technique? May the long interplanetary travels be
undertaken through the “apparent death” induced by the technique of
hibernation and subsequent “resurrection” taking place in “another world”?
Can sarcophagi be inspired to such hibernation structures usually filled with
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