Waste Of Time Home Page

This website is devoted to exposing David Rohls New Chronology of Ancient Egypt and showing that it will not stand the "Test Of Time".  That is not to say that chronological revision or refinement is wrong or not required. Rohls 350 years is simply impossible.  


Index

Introduction

A place to debate chronological ideas

The Ancient Near East Chronology Forum

Refutations Of Rohl's Conclusions[Image]

Brissaud Takes On the Monster in "Nessie sur le lac du Temps" [NEW]

A Sort of Endorsement for The Waste of Time Homepage??? (Dr Anthony Leahy)

The Length of the Third Intermediate Period (Adapted from Aidan Dodson)

The kings Psusennes and the overlap of the 21st and 22nd Dynasties (Frederic Payraudeau)

Synchronistic History (Stephen Mcintyre)

Workmen Of Deir el Medina [Rohl's dating of the 20th Dynasty would have up to six generations of workmen working at the same time]

Thera Bronze Age Volcanic Event [Rohl must move the date of Thera's eruption]

KTU 1.78 (Rohls eclipse)

The Geneology of Neseramun [A Family who live through both dynasties and show they cannot overlap]

The Necropolis Of Tanis

The Chronology Of Ancient Egypt

Qadesh & Hamath

The Kai Of Inhapi [This tomb is the reason for the coffins in the wrong order in DB320]

The Temple Of Tanis

Link To Ian Hutchesson's Page on Assyrian Chronology

The Philistines

Seti I's Bethshan Stela                                             Translation Of Seti's Stela

Tiglath Pileser I takes on the Mushki                        Tiglath Pileser an Iron Age King?                    Tiglath Pileser I's Great Inscription

The Ramesside Kings

Ashur-Uballit I (a man with two fathers?)                 Ian Hutchesson's Page On Asher-Uballit I        Letters of Burnaburiash II from Armana

The Officials of Egypt  and Kings of rival countries who have to be doubled up as well as the kings if you think Dynasty 21 is contemporary with Dynasty 22

The High Priests of Ptah [Only two families hold the Piesthood of Ptah in the 21st and 22nd Dynasty they are clearly one after the other]

The High Priests of Amun

The Southern Viziers Of Egypt

The Prophets Of Amun

Middle Assyrian King List [Rohl needs to invent a second Ashur Ubalit I for whom there is no other evidence]

The Babylonian King List [And of course he therefore has to invent a second Burnburiash II in Babylon]

The Kings of Carchemish [These kings lived in the gap that Rohl would like to eliminate from history]

The Kings of Milid [As above]

Supporting Information [Work It Out For Yourself]

Nile Level Texts

Highest Known Regnal Years

A New Kinglist For The TIP

The Hereditary Princes of Athribis & Heliopolis

and the Chiefs of the Libu

The Five Great Chiefdoms of Ma

Errors In Kitchen                                                                                              

Dating Osorkon II (Frank Yurco)

The Birmingham School is not a Borg-style collective! (Dr Anthony Leahy)

Tang I Var Inscription (Mostly Frank Yurco)

Pasenhor's Stela

Dating Tefnakht

The Fourth Prophets & High Priests of Amun (Frederic Payraudeau)

Historical Chronology of Ancient Egypt a Current assessment (Prof Kitchen)

Excellent site on the chronological syncronisms (Stephen Mcintyre)

Translations of important ancient texts (Stephen Mcintyre)

The Kings Of Urartu

The Kings of Que and Unqi


Rohl himself explains his excuse for "Test of Time"

Absence Of Evidence (D Rohl)

Academic resistance to radical revisionism (D Rohl)

"Amateur enthusiast" not weighed down by facts (D Rohl) [I love this one]

Legends and Myths (nunki.net)

History is not the past (D Rohl)

Comments From the Learned about "Test Of Time"

Your 98% Rubbish Go Away (Professor Kenneth Kitchen)  

Trial By Television (Professor Kenneth Kitchen)                

Frank Yurco's Charlatans (Frank Yurco)

Pharaohs and Kings Confused (Gary Byers)

KMT review of Test of Time

Deconstructing Rohl (Walter Mattfeld)

Temporal Fugues (Chris Bennett)

Temporal Fugues (Cont) (Chris Bennett)

Postscript To Temporal Fugues (Chris Bennett)

Biblical Archaeology Review

Leiden University

A New Look at Rohl's Chronology (Bryant Wood)

Link To Jansen-Wilkerns Report on the NC (Jansen-Wilkerns)

Link To Martin Heide's Debate with Peter Van de Veen

Le Monstre du Loch Ness est-il ne dans le lac Sacre de Tanis (Philippe Brissaud)

The "pseudo-harmonization" phenomenon (Dr. Aardsma)

Bijbel, Geschiedenis en Archeologie (J.G. van der Land)

Rohl's New Chronology does not accommodate the Philistines (J.G. van der Land)

Conclusive evidence against Rohl's proposed New Chronology (J.G. van der Land)

Selected Quotes From The Experts

Others & Under Construction

Apis Chronology

Links

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