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I'm fairly sure Bauval must have attended either the British Boy's School or (more probably) the British Boys' School, not the British Boys's School as the article currently states, but I don't know which one is correct. Binabik80 22:40, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

corrected to " Boys' ".--cjllw | TALK 04:17, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Recently paid a predatory publisher to publish an article with Robert Schoch[edit]

See this. Doug Weller talk 19:16, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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"In late 1992, Bauval had been trying to obtain a translation of Hermetica by Walter Scott. He then came across a new edition printed by Solo Press with a foreword by Adrian Gilbert.[1] Bauval contacted Gilbert after being interested in his foreword concerning a link between an Alexandrine school of Hermes Trismegistus and the pyramid builders of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt."

The reference given for the second sentence is a link to the book, this supports only that Adrian Gilbert wrote a forward for a book (not even really a reliable third party source for that). The rest of this charming story is completely unsourced as it is not encyclopedic to boot, it should go.

"which became an international bestseller"

The source calls the books written by Hancock and Bauval "best sellers" not "international best sellers" seems unsourced puffery.

A good deal of content tagged citation needed for three years remains uncited. A substantial trimming seems in order. MrBill3 (talk) 08:29, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Black Genesis in Antiquity Magazine.[edit]

Here.[1] The conclusion: "As I plowed through the book, it is this that I struggled with the most. It was not the convoluted reasoning that would probably have killed my undergrad Jesuit logic professor. It was not the calculated exclusion of well-accepted regional archaeological knowledge. It was not the subtle (and often not so subtle) implications that archaeologists are purposefully obscuring “the truth.” Instead it was how best to separate the illogical, unsubstantiated, and often downright crazy assertions from some of these more thorny (and valid) underlying disciplinary issues without ascribing any measure of genuine authority or expertise to the authors, because, let me tell you, they sure do not deserve any." And earlier in the review:

"the authors engineer the “simple truth” of their argument by totally neglecting to discuss current research in the Neolithic and Predynastic of the Nile Valley (and immediately surrounding area). They also completely neglect to discuss any of the research carried out by the Combined Prehistoric Expedition on other sites in the region, such as the Middle Paleolithic site of Bir Tarfawi, the Upper Paleolithic site of Wadi Kubbaniya, or the wealth of Neolithic sites in the Bir Kiseiba and Bir Abu Hussein regions, all of which would complicate the tottering house of cards they have constructed." Doug Weller talk 11:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]