"Manfred Bietack also reminded us, ‘It is a great illusion to believe that sciences are more reliable, at least just n…"

"Colonel Kyd, an Englishman, had the following to say regarding general surgical skill in the subcontinent: (In) chiru…"

"Dr. H. Scott wrote the following letter on January 12, 1792, again on the subject of Indian surgery: In medicine I sh…"

"A. R. Burn in the 1930s had doubted the conventional chronology of ancient Greece, also using the Spartan king list, …"

"Of the 3rd millennium BC , Marc van de Mieroop confessed ‘the chronology is confused owing to the Sumerian king list’…"

"Manfred Bietak pointed out other dangers in dendrochronological dating. It is ‘methodologically wrong to compare diff…"

"The book encapsulating it was Centuries of Darkness in 1991. The authors were not fringe mavericks. Colin Renfrew, Pr…"

"Barry Strauss’ excellent The Trojan War using conventional chronology, warns the reader that ‘most dating is relative…"

"Sir Alan Gardiner’s 1961 Egypt of the Pharaohs devoted a whole chapter to the dating problem. ‘In spite of all defect…"

"Centuries of Darkness was particularly critical of modern Egyptologists. ‘Early Egyptologists were usually more tenta…"