Directory
Ralph Ellis Research Library
Investigations, articles, the sources they cite, the original files, the books, the lectures and the interviews. Articles he published on Ancient Origins are listed by title and linked out. Their text is not copied here.
Where to begin
Recommended starting points
Three investigations cover the main line of the work. The full directory is below.
105 resources
InvestigationEgypt and the Exodus
The Hyksos and Avaris
Josephus already joined the Israelites to the Hyksos. On that reading, their expulsion from Avaris in the sixteenth century BC is the Exodus.
InvestigationJesus and Edessa
The king of Edessa
The gospel king is placed as King Izas of Edessa, in the Jewish Revolt of the sixties, rather than as a carpenter of the thirties.
InvestigationJesus and Edessa
Saul and Josephus
Saul, called Paul, is identified with the historian Flavius Josephus, so the gospel family can be set beside the histories.
InvestigationArthurian Britain
Arthur
After the Revolt, the king is sent into exile in Britain and remembered there as Arthur.
InvestigationClimate and Ice Ages
The ice ages
With Michael Palmer, in a 2016 paper in Geoscience Frontiers, dusty ice sheets rather than carbon dioxide are proposed as the main control on the ice ages.
InvestigationOther Research
How the argument is made
Each book takes a person in scripture, moves that person onto a known event, and argues they are the same individual.
Research ArticleJesus and EdessaMarch 2022
The Huqoq Elephant Mosaic – an Alternate Analysis
The elephant mosaic at Huqoq is read as a meeting in AD 65 between King Izates-Manu VI of Edessa and the high priest, rather than as Alexander or an Antiochus.
Research ArticleJesus and Edessa15 July 2017
The Ark of Edessa
A Sogmatar inscription of the Seleucid year 476 is read as a seat kept at the Edessan necropolis, and the article asks whether that seat is the biblical ark.
Research ArticleClimate and Ice AgesNovember 2016
Modulation of ice ages via precession and dust-albedo feedbacks
A 2016 paper with Michael Palmer. Late-Pleistocene ice ages, they argue, are paced by precession and regulated by dusty ice sheets. Carbon dioxide is not, in their account, the main feedback.
Research ArticleArthurian Britain, Jesus and Edessa15 May 2014, the date of the file
Astrology, King Jesus and King Arthur
A Nazarene use of the zodiac is traced into Arthurian legend, and read in the Round Table.
Research ArticleJesus and EdessaSeptember 2012, the date he signed it
Jesus, King of Edessa
The gospel events are placed in the AD 60s, and the king in that history is a king of Edessa in northern Syria.
Research ArticleEgypt and the Exodus2004, the copyright line on the extract
Eden in Egypt
From Genesis 2:10, the river of Eden is read as the Nile, and the garden and the Tower of Babel are placed in Egypt rather than in Mesopotamia.