Timeline

Found an interesting article that suggests oldest written quotes from the Bible can be found on a piece of pottery Carbon dated to c1000BC... I personally don't put a lot of stock in carbon dating, but we should be able to validate this via other methods such a layer the pot was found in, material type, etc.... Here is link and short quote:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/08/bible-really-written/

"By decoding the inscription on a 3,000-year-old piece of pottery, an Israeli professor has concluded that parts of the bible were written hundreds of years earlier than suspected.

The pottery shard was discovered at excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa near the Elah valley in Israel -- about 18 miles west of Jerusalem. Carbon-dating places it in the 10th century BC, making the shard about 1,000 years older than the Dead Sea scrolls.

Professor Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa deciphered the ancient writing, basing his interpretation on the use of verbs and content particular to the Hebrew language.
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Jacobusdt assembled an excellent timeline building tool for Excel. Since I don't use Excel I can't test it but It sure does look useful. He writes:

I have included the instruction in the first sheet of the spreadsheet. I think it should be sufficient for most people who have previously been slightly exposed to Excel.
The development was done in MS Excel 2003 as this is the software to which I have access and can not guarantee it would work on later versions. I would appreciate it if you can ask someone to test it on a later version and give feedback to me.

I know I haven't posted much of late, but I have been busy... Here are some screen shots of a tool I hope to release later this summer (along with the source code.) I'm still working on some simple issues like removing the XML extensions from titles and some error checking, but it is mostly working...

It is NOT an editor, but a tool for creating new timelines and adding events to existing ones... It does not support Event Groups or Hyperlinks at this time...

It does support multiple forms of dates (YYYY, cYYYY, -YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, etc.) It also allows for limited Description support.

Anyway, here are some screen shots: