Union Voice/Readers Write: When Egyptians Struck

(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.”