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Nick Saunders's review of David Rohl's book A Test of Time: from Myth to History" (Review, 23 September) is a travesty, with snide remarks such as "this ex-rock musician's arguments ..." and "posing Indiana Jones" implying that the author is a "Johnny-come-lately" with superficial knowledge.

The book's dust-cover CV of the author indicates that he is a London University graduate in Egyptology with a long-standing interest in the subject since early boyhood, with excavations and several published academic papers to his name.

The present book may be iconoclastic, but original research often is (for example, A. Wegener and plate tectonics). A well reasoned thesis like the one presented in Rohl's book deserves more respect than that given by your reviewer.

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