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1952–2024 United Kingdom

Peter James (1952 - 2024) was a British author, specializing in the ancient history and archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean region.

United Kingdom
Historians
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Peter James wrote as recently as 2012, ‘scientists and archaeologists are still learning how to apply the radiocarbon method properly.’

Centuries of Darkness was particularly critical of modern Egyptologists. ‘Early Egyptologists were usually more tentative about their chronology, continually revising their opinions in the light of fresh evidence. Sadly the study of Egyptian chronology seems to have become so ossified that it cannot question its fundamental assumptions, accepted more for familiarity than for any basis in fact.’

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter James (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.