Note 770 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
In “Egypt’s Place in Universal History,” Bunsen gives the cycle of 21,000 years, which he adopts to facilitate the chronological calculations for the reconstruction of the universal history of mankind. He shows that this cycle “for the nutation of the ecliptic,” arrived at its apex in the year 1240 of our era. He says:
“The cycle divides itself into two halves of 10,500 (or twice 5,250) years each.
“The beginning of the first half: