[Natural Law]

Given the choice between physics and “word of mouth” to validate events and dates I will side with hard science. There is absolutely nothing to assure me that those who painted hieroglyphics 4,000 years ago were any more honest than the lying bastards who live in the region today.

[SunkenCiv]

Then you’ll be pleased to know that there’s no “hard science” to support A) tsunamis in the Aegean in the 2nd m BC, or B) a supereruption of Thera in 2nd m BC (or the 1st m BC for that matter).