Egyptian Civilization Its Sumerian Origin and Real Chronology

by Laurence Austine Waddell

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Genres: History, Egypt

292 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 - 1938) was a Scottish explorer, Professor of Tibetan, Professor of Chemistry and Pathology, Indian Army surgeon, collector in Tibet, and amateur archaeologist.

Waddell also studied Sumerian and Sanskrit; he made various translations of seals and other inscriptions.

His reputation as a Assyriologist gained little to no academic recognition and his books on the history of civilization have caused controversy.

Reviews

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll keep this brief, as to do an in-depth review would result in a book of its own. Suffice it to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and consider it one of the most important in my library on ancient history. It's an absolutely phenomenal work.

Waddell compiles an incredible body of evidence that supports his thesis on a rock solid foundation, and only rarely speculative within reason. The amount of irrefutable evidence, such as royal seals found at Abydos containing BOTH Egyptian hieroglyph and Sumerian script together literally listing the king's name and/or title in each script (a la Rosetta stone style), are honestly paradigm shifting. That this book was derided and buried in Waddell's day is a tragedy.

In fact, searching for any rebuttals to Waddell's work generally brings up a cornucopia of mostly petty insults and dismissals. His critics simply called his hypothesis "ridiculous" or "fantasy" without ever really addressing the actual evidence head-on. When one did venture to address a piece of evidence, it would be the weakest they could find and it turned into a strawman burning event that quite frankly, was embarrassing for the so-called "authorities" in the field. Almost every time though, the so-called rebuttals relied on argumentum ad hominem, argumentum ad populum, as well as appeal to authority and Red Herring fallacies. What becomes painfully obvious (as you'll see in this work) is that Waddell discovered scores of linguistic, historical, and archaeological evidence bridging the Sumerian, Egyptian, and Indus Valley civilizations as undeniably related, resulting in clearer timelines, resolved discrepancies, and lineages that upended the Indo-Aryan-Egyptian-Sumerian historical narratives, and the gate-keepers of the consensus narrative were not going to allow that to happen.

If you're interested in the history of these civilizations, you'd be doing yourself a disservice in not reading Waddell's work here and examining his copious evidence.

[Castilla Andrus · Rating 4 out of 5]

When first picking up this book, I am not sure if I expected something readable…. When he says that this is a chronology, that is exactly what he means.

I must confess that I don’t know quite as much about Egyptian history as I would recommend someone does before starting this read.

However, doing research as I went along, some of his claims are kind of mind blowing, so I do recommend.

He has his own theories about the etymologies of many words. These may not always align with what you see from a quick google search, but I encourage anyone interested to at least give him the light of day. I think he was massively onto something and society has left it all on the fringe…

[Varmint · Rating 1 out of 5]

ever feel liking reading something written by a crazy person? this is the book for you. i got this, and "Makers of Civilization in Race & History" at the dollar pile of my local bookstore.

700 pages that read like a mimeographed pamphlet an unwashed cultist would hand out on hollywood boulevard.

[Mohamed Amer · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most stunning book I ever read so far.