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'''''Ages in Chaos''''' is a book by the controversial writer [[Immanuel Velikovsky]], first published in [[1952]], which put forward a major revision of the history of the Ancient Near East. He continued writing about this in ''Oedipus and Akhnaton'' (1960), ''Peoples of the Sea'' (1977) and ''Rameses II and his Time'' (1978).

Velikovsky claimed in this book that the histories of [[Ancient Egypt]] and [[Ancient Israel]] are five centuries out of step. He began by claiming that the [[Exodus]] took place not, as orthodoxy has it, at some point during the [[New Kingdom]], but at the fall of the [[Middle Kingdom]]. He identifies the [[Hyksos]] with the Biblical [[Amalekites]], the Biblical [[Queen of Sheba]] with the Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]], the Biblical [[Shishak]] king of Egypt with Pharaoh [[Thutmose III]], and claims that the Egyptian [[Amarna letters]] from the late [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt|18th Dynasty]] describe events from the kingdoms of Israel and [[Kingdom of Judah|Judah]], roughly the time of King [[Ahab]].

== Critique ==