Original sentence: The following are some commonly-cited examples of pseudohistory:
Edited sentence: Before the Battle of the Pyramids, in 1798, Napoleon pointed to the Great Pyramid and told his men that "forty centuries" looked down on them.Incredibly enough, this is more or less the date still occupied by Ramesses II.Jewish and early Christian chroniclers equated Menes, the first pharaoh, with Adam, the first man (because the word Menes sounded like "man", a word common to many ancient languages).Many would define the conventional history of the ancient civilizations, with their timescales, as pseudohistory.One striking illustration of the "traditional" nature of Egyption chronology comes from an incident in Napoleonic history.So, for example, pharaoh Ramesses II was placed around 1,400 BC, the biblical date for the Exodus (an event now considered fictitious), because the Book of Exodus claimed that the Israelite slaves had been compelled to built a city known as "Ramsesses".So, for example, the idea that pharaohnic history began around 3,200 BC goes back two thousand years and is based on a fundamentalist interpretation of the Old Testament.The French commander therefore placed the construction of the Great Pyramid around 2,200 BC - very close to the date still found in the textbooks.The following are some commonly-cited examples of pseudohistory, though it mus be emphasized that one man's pseudohistory is another's history:.The rest of Egyptian history was made to fall in behind this starting point, with biblical events forming key anchor-points.They thus placed Menes around 3,700 BC, the date of Creation favored at that time.Yet this was over twenty years before Champollion had translated the hieroglyphs and founded the science of Egyptology