Which is more than one usually gets out of the anti-Es.
"The discovery of Troy has nothing to do with the number of Israelites leaving Egypt. Note that I did not dismiss the concept of the Israelites fleeing Egypt. I simply questioned how many did so, and I supplied a little research to bolster my position.
Which is more than one usually gets out of the anti-Es."
Read my post a little more clearly. I wasn't commenting directly on your post, as such. I was only getting into methodology.
In that sense, the discovery of Troy has nothing to do with...anything.
In another sense, it has everything to do with it.
Here's the point: sometimes an era's science is completely wrong. It is often especially wrong when it deals with ancient civilizations, economics, population movements, epidemeology and things of that sort. These things are often too complex to get a firm grasp on thousands of years later through any sort of research.
Sometimes....mythology - or that which is dismissed as mythology - may be a better source of actual truth than subsequent research.
It was so with Troy. It may well be so with Egypt. There is a good chance that there were in fact millions who fled, your research notwithstanding.