Aidan Dodson

And this is the trouble.

I think all we're looking at is just one side of the correspondence.

And this is the biggest problem in academia in general, is that whether one tries to remain even-handed over this or whether or not one sort of then becomes more involved and is sort of being in support of them from that direction.

So it's a tricky line.

Okay.

My own view...

This is the problem with being an academic.

It's whether you're sort of going with your heart or your head or a combination of the other two.

Always go with your heart, Aidan.

I've always taken the view that rib-addy is overdoing it.

Right.

been my sort of gut reaction to the whole correspondence however certainly in the context of Akhenaten in general and also there is a later text of Tutankhamun's which basically says that Egyptian foreign policy went to rats under his predecessor we actually have that

Indeed.

So the question is really whether or not... Certainly the scenario is that there are problems up that end of the Levant.

But the question is whether or not Ribadi's pleas should be taken at face value.

I, nothing is being done.

Or...

Whether something is being done, but not as much as Rib Addy would like there to be.

All we know is it happens in his 17th regnal year.

Well, that's the last regnal year we have recorded for him, so we assume it's happening again.