Two days ago we visited The World Museum in Liverpool. It is free and well worth a visit (and easy to get to by train from Leyland), with various attractions on each floor.

We have visited aquaria in other places and this one is good, though nothing special, but I was interested to discover it is the second oldest public aquarium in the world.  The first was apparently in London, whilst Sea Life Brighton is the oldest continuously operating one.

I was also interested by the x-ray of a Mummy. Having read the caption and waiting to take a photo a father jokingly mentioned to his son about the dangers of eating too many sweets. I presume he hadn’t read what the caption says that the Ancient Egyptians seemingly suffered tooth decay from having too much sand in their bread, I certainly didn’t know that, though I have had a filling come out due to something hard in what I was eating.

But the main reason for including the Museum in this section of my website was the impressive Egyptian timeline. (Being admired by Sarah and Abi.)

Like most such museums the dates seem to be presented as if absolute fact without any information about where the dates come from or the assumptions made.  Yet, the problems with Egyptian chronologies are well documented.

See for example the section Variant Middle Bronze Age chronologies in the Wikipedia page  on the Chronology of the Ancient Near East.

There are various attempts at a chronology and perhaps the best known is the New Chronology of David Rohl.

As you will have picked up elsewhere on my website I consider the Bible to have a much better and consistent chronology not just of the Ancient Near East but of creation.

Visited 29th December 2025