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Egyptian king list
The official king lists omit entire dynasties, skip pre-dynastic rulers, and compress what ancient sources describe as tens of thousands of years of reign into a tidy 3,000-year window. Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch, and Zecharia Sitchin each argue independently that the selective erasure points not to administrative tidying but to a deliberate suppression of a much older civilizational sequence. The Turin Canon's 'before the flood' section — listing divine and semi-divine rulers for implausibly vast reign-lengths — is treated as myth by consensus Egyptology, but alternative researchers treat it as the most honest surviving record.
Evidence
- The Abydos King List, carved in Seti I's temple, names 76 kings but conspicuously omits Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun, and the Amarna pharaohs entirely — a political purge confirmed even by mainstream scholars.
- The Turin Canon is the most explosive document in this tradition.
- The Karnak King List, composed under Thutmose III, uniquely preserves names from the First and Second Intermediate Periods scrubbed from other lists — suggesting, as Brien Foerster and UnchartedX's Ben van Kerkwyk have noted in separate analyses, that no single list was ever intended to be complete.
- Mauro Biglino, whose work centers on literal readings of Semitic and Egyptian sacred texts, argues the Netjeru entries in the Turin Canon are not metaphorical deities but literal administrators — a reading that parallels William Tompkins' and Michael Salla's claims about pre-human civilizational management of Earth.
- The Saqqara Tablet lists 58 kings in reverse order and likewise skips the Eleventh and Twelfth Dynasties in sequence, an anomaly Egyptology attributes to scribal convention but which researcher Matthew LaCroix argues reflects deliberate reframing of dynastic legitimacy chains.