Union Voice/Readers Write: When Egyptians Struck
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)“The note about the Egyptian tomb workers contains an error,” writes David
Gurowsky (UC, 11/21/2012). “You say that one source put the year of the
strike as 1170 B.C., then cite a second source that put the date as 1152 B.C.,
which you say is ‘earlier’. The years B.C. are reckoned in reverse
chronological order, the number of years before Christ. Therefore, 1152 occurred
after 1170 B.C.”