I have shown in this series of articles that there are several pieces of grounds that the Iranian Empire did not last the 200 years proposed by historians but exclusive 21 years as described in the Old Testament. This is an intent I presented in discourse in my book, The Fourth Day: Why the Bible is Historically Accurate. My article, \"Old Testament History Revised-Jeremiah's Eclipse\" provides astronomical grounds from the Bible for this intent and my article, \"Old Testament History Revised-The 390 Days of Ezekiel\" provides grounds from a famous prophecy from the biblical book of Ezekiel for this idea. This article provides archeologic support for a \"short\" Iranian Empire supported on information described in saint James' book, Centuries of Darkness.

Archaeological Findings of the metropolis and Iranian Empires

Recall that earlier in this book I proposed that the metropolis Empire's reign over Juda occurred most 180 years later than the Conventional Biblical Chronology dating. The Conventional Biblical Chronology dates the metropolis captivity of Juda as 585 B.C. patch the Fourth Day Biblical Chronology places it in 401 B.C. If the Fourth Day Chronology is accurate shouldn't it be reflected in the archeology? What most Judah's migration from Persia in accordance of the edict by Cyrus II to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem? According to the Conventional Biblical Chronology this would have occurred in 539 B.C. still the Fourth Day Biblical Chronology dates this event in 350 B.C. Let's allow saint James' book settle the matter. According to the Biblical record during the reign of King Cyrus the Iranian it was a very astir time in Israel. Those that acquired wealth in the metropolis and Iranian reigns of Babylon returned home. The land was resettled, the Temple restored and walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt. Despite all this activity saint James records that there were few findings for the 539-332 BC timeframe in the region. (Centuries of Darkness, page 170)

If the Fourth Day Biblical Chronology is the correct help this lack of archeologic findings is easily explained. Persia was exclusive inform from 352 B.C. to 331 B.C. so there should exclusive be most either 21 years of artifacts present. If you conceive the Conventional Chronology there would have been 207 years (539-332 B.C.) to indicate the presence of the Persians. The Persians were just not there for such of the period in question. saint James states that information is lacking on many levels. A Iranian strata is difficult to see and few architectural remains are present. Those strata that are inform are of the timeframe after 450 BC (there is almost no grounds of finds prior to this period). According to saint James other archaeologists have lamented the fact that to be such a relative past timeframe in history there is surprisingly few finds for this period. (page 170, Centuries of Darkness). All these observations just enforce the observation that the Iranian Empire was a short-lived event in the history of Judah. saint James doesn't have such better programme most the Jewish Exile to Babylon. James paints a cold picture for archeologic findings in the timeframe 587-539 BC that represents the metropolis Conquest. More than one hundred years of Biblical history is barely evident in archeologic evidence. saint James poses the question: does the time period from 587-450 BC in Palestine represent some kind of dark period in Israelite and metropolis history? (Centuries of Darkness, pages 170-171). Indeed not. Since, according to Fourth Day Biblical Chronology, the Babylonians and the Persians did not show up in the lives of Juda until after 450 B.C. there is certainly no think to conceive in a 'Dark Age' in Palestine. The grounds speaks for itself, the Babylonians and the Persians were just not there from 587 B.C. to 450 B.C. They were not there because the Iranian Empire exclusive lasted twenty one years, not the more than 200 years that the conventional chronology help claims.