The King Jesus Trilogy
Cleopatra to Christ
Jesus, the great-grandson of Cleopatra
Edfu Books · Est. 1997
The Bible is real history.If you research the correct date.Suddenly, well-known events and people become visible.
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Interview · Appeared 30 October 2026
Was Mary Magdalene a Royal Princess?
Was Mary Magdalene a wealthy aristocrat—and could the legends of her journey to France preserve traces of a royal past?
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Did Jesus Survive the Cross?
Did Jesus survive crucifixion—and spend his final years in Roman Britain?
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6 articles, the newest of them The Huqoq Elephant Mosaic – an Alternate Analysis. They set out his reading of the evidence, including points on which most scholars would disagree.
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14 sources cited in his articles. His interpretation of the texts diverges from academic consensus.
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Avaris, Tell el-Dab‘a, eastern Nile Delta, Egypt.16th century BC. AI reconstruction, not a photograph.
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The Israelites werethe Hyksos pharaohs
Josephus had already joined the Israelites to the Hyksos. On that reading the Exodus is their expulsion from Avaris, in the eastern Delta, in the sixteenth century BC — which is why Abraham, Jacob and Solomon are missing from Canaan in the century the seminaries named.
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Edessa, Osroene (now Şanlıurfa, Turkey).About AD 60. AI reconstruction, not a photograph.
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Jesus was a kingof Edessa
A great-grandson of Cleopatra, a commander in the Jewish Revolt, and the king of a city-state in northern Syria. A coin of Edessa still shows the spiked crown. The carpenter of Nazareth, on this account, is a later telling.
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St Michael’s Tower, Glastonbury Tor, Somerset.10 August 2019. Rossographer, CC BY-SA 2.0; figures removed.
III
King Arthur isthe British afterlife of that king
After the Revolt the same king is sent, on this account, to a Roman prison in Britain. Twelve companions, a table, a wounded king and a Grail: the Arthurian stories as a western memory of that eastern house.
Explore This ResearchIn a 2016 paper in Geoscience Frontiers, Ralph Ellis and Michael Palmer proposed that dust on the northern ice sheets, rather than carbon dioxide, was the main feedback in the glacial cycle.
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Jesus the King of Edessa
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Cleopatra to Christ
Jesus, the great-grandson of Cleopatra
Cheshire, England
Why are so many famous biblical charactersmissing from the historical record?
Look in the wrong century and scripture looks like a myth. The work here goes back to Josephus, to coins, stelae and mosaics, and asks where those kings stand once the dates are allowed to move.
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