Priests or Priestesses? Neither! Berlin · March 2020 Uwe und Ilya Topper topperilyapq Priests or Priestesses? Neither! Anyone who – like many authors today – consistently speaks of “priests” whose task it was to calculate the calendar, is doubly wrong. Firstly, in the beginning those were mostly women, and secondly, they were not priests but

The Christian Origins of the Koran Günter Lülings’ surprising theories Ilya U. Topper Cádiz · 1994 1. Written by one person? As we know, the Bible is not the product of one single person but is made up of a great variety of individual pieces which were thrown together almost accidentally, handed on in an

Leo Wiener, a pioneer halfway through Berlin · 2020 Uwe Topper topper This book of the fairly known american historian about forgeries of Greek and Latin texts of late antiquity – though easily matching our history revision – has not been mentioned so far by any of our authors: Leo Wiener (1920) Contributions towards a

Velikovsky and the Forgotten Disaster Berlin · Sept. 2005 Uwe Topper topper A review of ImmanuelVelikovsky’s book, (1987): Mankind in Amnesia (transl. from the American by F. W. Gutbrod; Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. and Berlin) The book, published in the USA in 1982, three years after Velikovsky’s death, was described by the author himself as

Swift and the Martian moons How did Jonathan Swift get knowledge of the two tiny moons some 150 years before they were discovered by the means of a telescope? Berlin · 2007  Uwe Topper The two minute moons of Mars are quite known to everybody, they have sounding names: Phobos and Deimos. And the enigma of

Stratigraphy and Chronology of Ancient Jerusalem Pertaining to his uninterrupted research in early history of the Near East and especially of ancient Mesopotamia laid out in his book „Die Sumerer gab es nicht“ (The Sumerians never existed, first edition: Frankfurt on Main 1988 (see Spanish review here); improved edition with actualized preface and English summary: