barry Wrote:
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> You can ridicule and marginalize Messrs. Hancock
> and Bauval to your heart's content.

Er - my (admittedly very sketchy) summary mentioned nothing that doesn't appear in the two authors' books! I purposely refrained from making any statement that could be defined as an opinion.

>
> However, it must be gratifying to the both of them
> that date of civilization gets pushed back even
> further with each new discovery.

Well, I've already discussed this in my earlier post ...

>
> Also, given the tone of some of the posts on this
> board, I suspect as the oft demanded 'pot shards'
> keep turning up, those who support what now
> appears to be the Maginot Line of Orthodoxy seem
> to be, if I might be permitted to say, a little
> bit perturbed.

And equally, if I might be permitted to say as much, that seems a rather hackneyed observation! The "Maginot Line of Orthodoxy" is a fiction with little basis in reality. The fact is that archaeological discoveries are continually being made, different interpretations of archaeological evidence are constantly being debated, and archaeological knowledge is therefore in a continual state of flux.

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