  The recently shown two premises (Gurzadyan 2000), i.e. the absence of 56/64
year Venus cycle constraints, at the importance of the 8-year cycle in the
Venus Tablet, stimulated new studies on the Chronology of the Ancient Near East
(2nd millennium BC). The analysis by B.Banjevic using both premises, however,
did not provide anchors of strenght similar to those of Ur III eclipses, while
available solar eclipses lack unambiguous links to historical events. The
Ultra-Low chronology (Gasche et al 1998), therefore, has to be considered as
currently the one most reliably based on ancient astronomical records.
