Stephen E. Franklin offers a wide-ranging website^(a) which includes a book that ambitiously aims to reconcile the chronologies of the ancient Hebrews, Assyrians and Egyptians. This has been an area of great contention ever since the writings of Immanuel Velikovsky were published in the 1950’s. David Rohl has published a series of books on the subject in recent years.

Franklin’s site includes a section on Atlantis where he maintains that the 9,000 ‘years’ of Plato refer to the three ‘seasons’ in the Egyptian year, an idea that seems to be gaining acceptance.

[see Radek Brychta]

Some years ago Franklin published a book^[301] on the origins of the Tarot deck. Its subtitle is A Study of the Astronomical Substructure of Game and Divining Boards.

^(a) http://neros.lordbalto.com/