Indo-Aryan words in Hurrian

[L.S.Cousins]

Stephen,

You mentioned this once before and it passed unquestioned.

I lurked in an Egyptology list for a while and it became clear that
the chronology put forward by David Rohl is widely rejected among
Egyptologists, mainly on the grounds of scientific dating of the
eruption at Santorini in the Aegean. We cannot use it as evidence for
anything Indological.

>  If the
>latter, what are your views on the hypothesis of several scholars
>recently that Egyptian dates for the Middle and New Kingdoms are
>erroneous and need to be moved downwards to more recent dates by
>several hundred years ?  I know this sounds like the attempts to
>redate the RV the other way, but at least in the case of Egypt the
>evidence seems fairly compelling.

Lance Cousins
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