Single Combat during the Trojan War

[Robert Vermaat]

All they are doing is removing the so-called Dark Ages which was an artificial construct to account for the fact that the current chronology is bollocks.

I'd rather that they removed a certain part of the Egyptian chronology because they could prove it was based on wrong evidence. The way you describe it sound like they had a bright idea (the 'dark ages' are bollocks) and they subsequently tried to fit the evidence to prove that idea. Which is what that guy Velikovsy started out to do, he wanted Ramesses II to be the pharaoh of the Exodus. But if it fits, well...

Centuries of Darkness was written over ten years ago and nobody has put up a credible argument against its main conclusions.

That sounds good. Has there been serious oppiosition or has the book been ignored by mainstream Egyptologists?

John Bimson and Juan Tebes applied the new chronology to the Timna site and found that only by revising the timeline by the full 250 years could the previous inconsistencies between the Egyptian and Assyrian dating systems be resolved.

That sound very promising, because that is the main problem of redating a chronology - it still has to fit with all the other chronologies. If you shorthen one by 250 years, you must perhaps do that to every related one. Assyrian, Babylonian, Hittite, etc.

Try reading Furlong's PhD thesis, which was done completely independently of CoD yet he came up with a very similar chronology.
http://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/R/V5JSVRMVLVQ ... ndle=GUEST

I will.