This book started it.
I tried to get my boys into it when we studied Ancient History 5 or so years ago but they were too young.
This time at 11&12 I feel like so many doors have opened!
They can comprehend so much, that I struggle with not overwhelming them with material to cover.
This book is a great place to start for some christian apologetics and maybe help an older child see history through a biblical point of view.
If you believe God created man intelligent than all of history makes more sense.
Noah’s Ark, Stonehenge, The Tower of Babel, Indus Valley, all of these things point to ancient man being intelligent.
You will also notice a giant boom of civilizations after the Tower of Babel. Which would make sense if everyone suddenly spoke different languages.
The author wrote a study guide to go with this book and the boys loved it!
Up until this year I have mostly just had the boys reading a lot for history and science, this year I have been having them actually delve deeper and research.
We have had Life in the Great Ice Age for a while and I learned so much from it.
This year I decided to get the boys the study guide to go with it though to see if they could get even more from it.
This would be a great place to start for Elementary Age.
I found this amazing curriculum from Master Books around the same time!
It definitely pushes them a bit since they are in 7th grade and it was designed for more 9th-12th but they are learning so much!
I love that it helps them see how the bible fits into history.
All of these resources introduce the idea that maybe the excepted timeline for the pharaohs is off.
If you can open yourself to that possibility then you start finding a lot of evidence to the Exodus.
You can read more about it on Answers in Genesis site, here.
I never really understood how important those detailed lists of “begats” were before.
God gave us a timeline.
At the same time we are listening to this amazing audio adventure series called Jonathan Park.
I have been using this series for a while to help teach scientific creationism but these two new adventures happen to be teaching about the same time period we are learning about!
The Dreamers Tomb touches on the evidence for Joseph and Call of the Exodus talks about Moses and the Exodus.
I always come away from listening with new information to look up.
I love that this series pushes me to understand the bible even more.
I had bought the movie “Patterns of Evidence” a while ago and really enjoyed it. It talks all about the evidence for the bible in the egyptian timeline.
Then when we started this study I bought “Patterns of Evidence for Young Explorers.“
Both were a great way to get the wheels turning on timelines and the bible but now I have found that they have a curriculum to go with both of them!
We are currently not doing this curriculum due to how much my boys are already doing but I printed the sample to look at and would love to try it.
You can also find it on the Answers in Genesis, site.
I might be a bit addicted to this time period now.
I am currently trying to convince my boys that we should just keep studying Biblical Archaeology for several years…
My 12yr old is not convinced.
Yet.
I will keep working on him though…
Check out my video on these resources.