Page 368 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

[1300-123° B‘CJ The Exodus 315
or Rameses II and Merenptah, run into difficulties of nonsyn­
chronization with the archaeological evidence for the destruction
of such towns as Jericho and Lachish.) Thus the main events of
the Palestinian conquest can be dated with high probability
within limits of perhaps thirty years. For the purpose of the story
it has been necessary in this chapter to pinpoint the dates more
closely than that, and it should be realized that such pinpointing
is in advance of the evidence—in other words, guesswork.