Once again we see someone proposing a theory about what could be, rather than looking at cultural evidence to document a theory about what should be.

There’s nothing like pulling from completely different chapters of The Histories and mashing them together as if they were written in the same paragraph. And then asserting the theory solves problems for which we have no evidence of their existence: pollution and oxygen deprivation of the Nile.

And shall we also inform the authors that the Nile floods were not only reliable from year to year, but also substantially well documented by their levels?

And, of course, there is that inconvenient fact that there is no evidence whatsoever for a “water main” that runs 50 miles across Egypt and dumps into the sealed bedrock of the Subterranean Chamber. Oh wait! Maybe they used Davidovits’s magic “pourable rock” to cover over the mouth of the 3’ pipe, and archeologists are just too stupid to see it.

This “theory” gets four Stargates as my review. It’s not the full five because there weren’t any aliens involved.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.