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could be fixed with absolute precision. More recent research has eroded that confidence and questioned many of the assumptions used with the Sothic Cycle. As a result, experts have moved away from relying on it.
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Synchronisms with other chronologies often rely on some form of recorded communication between regions. For example, in Egyptology, the earliest such synchronisms appear in the 15th century BC, during the
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Astronomical synchronisms rely on precise identification of astronomical events recorded in the historical record. The best known of these is the
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One example is Patrick O'Mara, "Censorinus, the Sothic Cycle, and calendar year one in ancient Egypt: the Epistological problem",
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monarchs; that links Egyptian chronology with other Near Eastern chronologies.
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by the considerable quantity of diplomatic correspondence between
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Set forth in "Excursus C: The Twelfth dynasty" in his
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