This item lets me return to the subject of the biblical Bronze Age.  Because the Bible is essentially our only intact text from the era and is central to a classical education, a huge amount of human effort has gone into piecing together as much as is possible of related histories.

I have argued that the core narrative of the Bible can be placed during the two centuries preceding 1159 BCE with overlap.  I will not chase all details here, but it is sufficient to recognize the ascendancy of the Sea Peoples who sported the right number of tribes and were represented in Palestine by the Philistines.

I have accepted that the Sea Peoples were the Atlanteans based out of the delta city of Atlantis established near Gibraltar.  Recent work has located evidence of the city itself.  The Sea Peoples were a confederation of mostly coastal palace based states that controlled the market for bronze.   They came to dominate not just the Atlantic seaboard but also the Mediterranean littoral as demonstrated by the reports of the Philistines. The rise of Tyre as a Phoenician city is likely contemporaneous but may simply have been conquered.

In fact it is likely that all coastal cities at this time came under the effective control of these European Sea peoples as they secured markets for their bronze.

I also accept the thesis that the Homer’s world is situated in the Baltic and that the events possibly took place in the generation preceding 1159 BCA.  This has been confirmed from the text itself by Da Vinci a couple of years ago.

The bronze itself came from North and South America and left a deep archeological record behind just about everywhere it was possible to mine copper and also tin.  Lake Superior and Petosi are the two most spectacular examples.  Atlantis was the natural port of entry as Seville was in a later age and also the natural choke point to control the trade.

New Mexico is copper country of course and access by sea is much easier than say Lake Superior.  Thus I am not surprised to find an artifact like the Los Lunas Decalogue stone.

What this article informs us of is that the Judaic Yahweh and much of the material may well be derived from Atlantean sources rather than Mesopotamian sources or Egyptian sources.  In fact it is obvious that the confederation of Atlantis adopted the idea of an alphabet and this emerged in many unique forms to adapt to the various tongues spoken.  That the Greek version emerged in improved form makes it look inevitable, but it was not.

There was likely never a tribe of Atlanteans but there certainly was a dominant city that managed the bronze trade.  Hekla’s blast in 1159 BCE, destroyed the Atlantic littoral and Atlantis.  The Bronze Age ended there and then as no new copper flowed out of the Americas.  The tributary cities and colonies such as the Philistines withered with exceptions such as the Phoenicians.

This was followed by a dark age, particularly in Northern Europe as agriculture collapsed with the collapse of the bronze market.  This triggered movement of refuges southward which wiped out exposed place states such as Mycenae.

Please note the surety of the date 1159 BCE.  All other related dates have a huge margin of error and should not be trusted at all.  Classical Greek history begins to properly emerge around five hundred years later and the only records on hand appear to be in whatever passed for the Athenian library.  Athens had been founded as a palace city and had survived down to classical times.  Thus whatever we have retained of Atlantean culture has been passed down to us by the Athenians directly or by the Bible indirectly.

Los Lunas Decalogue Stone