I stand by my joke, as everything is dated according to the current pharaoh, but it’s not like they signed their letters with the position of the planets - the

I stand by my joke, as everything is dated according to the current pharaoh, but it’s not like they signed their letters with the position of the planets - the dates relative to today are reconstructed in various ways as one pharaoh being so many years after another. The wiki on Egyptian Chronology explains various scenarios where the dates have had to be changed sometimes by hundreds of years according to new evidence: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_chronology https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_chronology