> Methos was about 5000 years old. His birth date and place
> were lost, because he couldn't remember the exact details.
> However it seems that Methos was born either in ancient
> Mesopotamia or ancient Egypt in around 3000 BC. He was the
> second son of three boys and two girls, and he lived with his
> family. When he was approximately 28 years old, he died when
> a sandstorm trapped him and his family. His family died and
> Methos became Immortal. Afterwards, he roamed the earth
> without knowing his immortality. People thought he was a
> demon and tried to kill him many times. Methos learnt how to
> survive from then on. By the time he was an estimated 603
> years old, he took his first Quickening. He then realized
> that there were many Immortals besides him, and he started to
> learn about The Game.

The above paragraph is from "The Methos Chronicles," a short story in the
anthology An Evening at Joes, written by Don Anderson, the assistant props
master on Highlander. The anthology contained several short stories written
by the cast and crew of Highlander.

> When he was a slave back in Ancient Egypt, an Immortal
> Pharaoh named Djer took him under his wing but apparently the
> ruthless Pharaoh killed his nomad wife during a Smiting of
> Sinai or killing of all nomads, so Methos buried him alive
> inside a sarcophagus within a deep tomb and claimed his
> throne as a Pharaoh of Egypt. His journey after that was unknown.

The above paragraph is from The Methos Chronicles, a series of 1-minute
animated Flash episodes that came out several years ago. It was created by
Joshua Davis, son of Peter Davis, one of the producers of Highlander, and
Peter Wingfield voice Methos in it.

There's a Methos timeline on my site that's anotated with the sources for
all the "facts":
http://www.methos.org/adam/timeline.html

Sharon