Egyptian history will be explored, looking for potential shortenings, with a view to putting the Exodus at the end of the Old Kingdom, a time when Egypt collapsed. This could neatly link with the Conquest of Canaan at the end of the Early Bronze period when the city states of Canaan collapsed. However, the end of the Old Kingdom is normally dated c. 2150 BC, much earlier than the typical biblical date given for the Exodus, c. 1450 BC. Such a placement of the Conquest was proposed by Osgood (1986a, b, c; 1988a, b, c) in the first issues of a forerunner of this journal but the idea has been forgotten and, increasingly, evangelical writers have accepted orthodox Egyptian dates at least back to the New Kingdom. In section 1 we will attempt to shorten '2150' BC to 1450 BC. In section 2 we will speculatively work backwards through time from the Old Kingdom to Abraham and the Flood. It will be shown that if the Exodus is placed in the New Kingdom with normal New Kingdom dates, then early Egyptian history would extend back before the biblical Flood date, and this would therefore conflict with biblical history.