Rome and Jerusalem - a stratigraphy-based chronology of the Ancient world

"...Historians are not aware that they have duplicated and extended history by employing two different dating schemes. The period from the 9th to the 6th century BC follows the chronology used in the Hebrew Bible. Dates from the 6th to 3rd/2nd centuries are mostly derived from Greek (Herodotus etc.) or Latin texts. Livius, however, already employed the same historical narratives several times to show ‘evidence’ back to 753 BC (Maier 1989). In reality, pre-Hellenistic Hebrew writers (supposedly active from the 9th to the 6th c. BC) and Greeks/Romans (writing 6th-4th c. BC) dealt with the same time-span of the first millennium BC. It is the period of the Akhaemenids (see already Heinsohn 1996; 2006a; 2006b). These Persian rulers are currently dated – after the fall of the Medish empire – from the 6th to the 4th century BC..."