:’) Bietak’s changed the date and pharaoh on this site over the years, mostly to reflect the singleminded drive (delusional system) of those who want to push the date of the Thera eruption back and put the blame for the fall of the Minoan palace civ’ on the volcano.
Trouble is, under the conventional pseudochronology moving back the date of the (imaginary) super-eruption makes it A) even less plausible as the cause and B) best case scenario is that the cause is accepted and all the synchronisms established over the past century or so will dissolve in a hideous miasma.
Okay, yeah, so, I’ve fallen in love with “miasma”. Never realized what fun it was to use that in a sentence. And it’s another word that fits in place of “volare’” in the song of the same name. ;’)
The problem I have with “volcano effect deniers” is that if one argues that Thera eruption didn’t do major harm to Minoan culture or have any effect on the peoples of the Eastern Med, then the inevitable corollary of that argument is that virtually nothing of note happened due to the eruption.
And that flies in the face of evidence that the eruption was cataclysmic, perhaps 4 or 5 times the explosive force of Krakatoa. Thera ash has been identified in many far off locations worldwide.
It may be that the eruption wound up pushing the Hyksos toward Egypt to get away from the effects of the eruption in their nearby lands of the Levant.