Change the narrative of war empires and History will get on the right track. An alternative to exercise your critical thinking.
Posted on: March 19, 2025
On the stories and myths of the conquering empires.
Alexandria of Egypt had one of the ancient and largest libraries in the world. The scholars who patronized this library could read in several languages such as Greek, Sanskrit, Hieroglyph, Sumerian, Babylonian, Persian, Aramaic… All those languages currently considered exotic were common languages to the learned people
As Persia empire conquered Egypt, they transferred most of its scrolls and items to Ctesiphon their capital for 800 years. Ctesiphon had the largest library after Alexandria library was burned by the Roman Ceasar during Cleopatra decades.
Ctesiphon was on the eastern side of the Tigres while the new Abbasid capital Bagdad was built on the western side and became the largest city in the world and the center for knowledge and sciences.
Thousands of scrolls of various civilizations on different topics were stored in Alexandria to access and read and acquire knowledge.
A group of these scholars started an epic job of describing the creation of the world from the viewpoints of many civilizations, according to their stories, myths and verbal accounts.
After Alexandria library was burned, scholars had no other sources for continuing their purpose.
Eventually, many not that learned people and who barely could read in two languages such as Greek and Aramaic began padding this job with historical fictions to give a certain history to the Bedouin tribes in the desert of Nakab, south of Palestine, and a few towns around Jerusalem.
And the Jewish books were laden with stories and myths of conquest, occupation, massacres and hatred on urban and civilized people they lived among them and basically avoided mingling with them.
For example, at various difficult periods, many people in Canaan (Levant Land) who lived in urban setting such as Jerusalem, Damascus and port cities of Gaza, Akka, Tyr, Sidon…fled to desert regions (south Palestine and Syria desert) or higher plateau such as what is called Judea and Samaria.
They opted to live a harsher lifestyle in order to avoid frequent slaving treatment and inducted as mercenaries during war periods.
Around 2000 BC, climate change brought severe drought for many successive years. Small and wealthy kingdoms on the Levant seashore were emptied and its inhabitant moved to regions closer to the Euphrates River and on to the Tigres River. Those kingdoms closer to Egypt transferred to the Nile delta.
In that period, mariners from around the Adriatic Sea landed on the Levant seashore in waves and sacked what was remaining in the towns and cities. They resumed their advance toward Egypt and occupied it for over a century.
As one of the pharaohs defeated them, they fled either westward toward the Libyan region or eastward toward the Sinai or by sea to Gaza and were called the Philistine.
From these circumstances and verbal accounts, the pseudo-scholars padded their work with fiction stories. For example, they created Moses who crossed the Nile and ventured into Sinai for many years.
And created fiction stories of them fighting the Philistine in Gaza. Since the philistine were better warriors, the scholars invented the myth of Samsom and then David fighting Goliath.
All these stories of Moses fleeing Egypt, or Abraham fleeing Iraq (Uruk and Akkad) and the successors of Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and the kings of Samaria and Judea…are pure created myths that never occurred.
Tyre merchants sent forward caravans to reach the “Eylat” port and paid the Bedouin tribes to secure safe travel and passage in the desert. Most probably Solomon was a chief of a few powerful tribes and Hiram of Tyre obliged him to build a small temple to hold his war statue Yahwe.
They went even farther by claiming that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar invaded Palestine and took captive the Jews to Babylon. This Babylonian king was fighting the Canaanites who allied with other neighboring tribes and did care to take captive Bedouin to milk his camels and goats. There were No Jews at this time for the Persian Cirus to free from Babylon.
For a century, archeologist around the world tried to discover a single fact of the existence of a civilization belonging to the Jews and found nothing. They never built a kingdom or any satisfactory urban setting.
The new writers, devoid of any other sources of other civilizations, were content of describing the traditions, customs, and daily routines of the Land of Canaan. How they lived in summertime, in winter periods, in trading and consuming products, in eating…
All those stories of war conquering empires of the Levant do not stand critical thinking.
These empires hired the artisans and scholars of the Levant to construct and build their civilization. From ship building, navy creation, sea trading, amphitheaters, aqueducts, temples, hygiene centers, schools and hospitals.
Although the topography of Syria (the inland of the Levant) is Not appropriate for sustained resistance (No dense and large forests, no rugged mountains, no major rivers to cross…) this land staunchly opposed all the various war empires because they learned that the war empires wanted their hard-earned wealth and to capture their artisans and professionals to construct their capitals.
For examples. The Assyria army set siege to Sidon for 13 years and had to finally withdraw.
The Macedonian Alexander had a vested revenge against Tyre: Tyre was the main Persian port for constructing warships and providing the experienced mariners in invading Greece.
The Persian had entered Greece and burned Athens. They did not remain there because there was nothing of benefit to dominate this baren land of Greece.
After Alexander defeated the Persian army and entered Damascus, all the Levant ports were freed from Persian dominion. Sidon, Cyprus, and the other ports supported Alexander with their fleet besieging Tyre.
The narrative that Canaan Land (later called Phoenicia by the Greek) was just traders is totally wrong. They were the first colonial power that set up hundreds of outposts all along the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic and the Red Sea.
You cannot sustain trading posts that grew to become cities for over thousands of years if they were not military posts with all the amenities that the Levantine civilization was used to.
During Jesus message, Galilee was under Tyre jurisdiction according to the Greek Seleucid empire and the dozens of towns across the Jordan River belonged to the kingdom of Petra. So, the Jews in Judea could not arrest Jesus until he decided to walk toward Jerusalem in the last 6 months of his message.
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