A 57-Year Chronological Correction to Ancient Near Eastern History: Predictive Verification of the Unified Chronology via Ptolemy's Anchor Eclipses
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This paper presents a comprehensive, multi-layered analysis demonstrating a fundamental ~57-year correction to the conventional chronology of the Ancient Near East. The analysis establishes a new chronological anchor of 530 BC for the destruction of the First Temple, generates falsifiable predictions about Ptolemy's lunar eclipses, and presents statistical validation showing the joint probability of all observed alignments occurring by chance is approximately 1 in 200,000.