B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (77 page)

[
67
] The background to
Benny: Year Zero
, given in
Benny: Epoch: Judgement Day
.

[
68
]
SLEEPY
(p102).

[
69
] As theorised by the Doctor in
The Sands of Time
(p234); the fifth Doctor and Peri visit a chamber
under
the Sphinx in
The Eye of the Scorpion
, so if Thutmose did dig out the Sphinx, he’d finished his work prior to that.

[
70
]
Forty-Five:
“False Gods”. Howard Carter says that Userhat’s tomb was sealed “three thousand years” prior to 1902. In real life, Amun was a patron deity of Thebes, and rose to prominence in the eighteenth dynasty (1550-1292 BC). The cult of Thoth gained notoriety somewhat before this, when its base of operations - Khnum - became the capital of the Hermopolite nome (a “nome” being an administrative district in ancient Egypt).

[
71
]
The Eye of the Scorpion
; Erimem’s father is named in
The Roof of the World
and
Erimem: The Coming of the Queen
.

[
72
]
Erimem: The Coming of the Queen

[
73
]
The Roof of the World

[
74
]
The Veiled Leopard

[
75
] Dating
Erimem: The Coming of the Queen
(BF New Worlds novel #2) - Erimem is 16 according to the blurb and pages 6-7; she’s 17 when she meets the Doctor and Peri in
The Eye of the Scorpion
. In the real world, Thutmose (here named as Erimem’s half-brother) ruled Egypt as Menkheperura Thutmose IV from about 1400-1390 BC, and historically - as in the
Doctor Who
universe - he was the son of Amenhtep II. His death as reported in
Erimem: The Coming of the Queen
is a fairly significant deviation from history; writer Iain McLaughlin had privately decided that Erimem’s successor to the throne, Fayum, would get renamed and become the historical Thutmose. While this seems like a fairly convoluted way of going about things, nothing especially rules it out either.

[
76
]
The Veiled Leopard

[
77
] Dating
The Eye of Scorpion
(BF #24) - The Doctor estimates the date as “about 1400 BC” from hieroglyphics; in the real world, it’s unclear as to whether the reign of Amenhotep II ended in 1401 BC or 1397 BC. Peri’s claim that Napoleon’s troops damaged the Sphinx’s face (historically, they arrived in Egypt in 1798) owes to an urban legend that they used it for target practice. The Doctor doesn’t correct Peri on this point, but there’s otherwise no evidence that Napoleon’s troops perpetrate the crime in the
Doctor Who
universe. In the real world, at least, erosion is the far more likely culprit.

[
78
] Dating
Set Piece
(NA #35) - The date is given as “1366 BCE”.

[
79
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
80
]
The Time Meddler
. The earliest parts of Stonehenge were built around 2800 BC, but the final building activity occurred between 1600-1400 BC.

[
81
]
Rags
(p160).

[
82
]
The Horns of Nimon

[
83
]
Vincent and the Doctor
. This presumably means the gardens of ancient Troy.

[
84
]
The Mark of the Rani

[
85
] Dating
The Myth Makers
(3.3) - The traditional date for the fall of Troy is 1184 BC, although this date is not given on screen.

[
86
]
Frostfire

[
87
] Dating
Frostfire
(BF CC #1.1) - The audio booklet concurs on a dating of 1184 BC for
The Myth Makers
, and the back cover dates
Frostfire
to 1164 BC, something that is reiterated within the story itself.

[
88
]
Frostfire.
A quinquereme is an oar-powered warship, and was developed from the earlier trireme. It was in use from fourth century BC to the first century AD.

[
89
] “Three thousand years” before the 1953 component of
TW: Trace Memory
.

[
90
] “Three thousand years” before “The Grief”.

[
91
]
Timewyrm Revelation
(p14). Wang was the last king of the Shang dynasty.

[
92
]
Death to the Daleks.
The Peruvian temples influenced by the Exxilons are around three thousand years old, so the collapse of Exxilon civilisation must be after that. In
SLEEPY
, Benny detects Exxilon influence in the Yemayan pyramid, dating from around “1500 BCE”.

[
93
]
Mawdryn Undead
. The ship has been in orbit for “three thousand years” according to the Doctor.

[
94
] Dating
Primeval
(BF #26) - It is “three thousand years” before Nyssa’s time.

[
95
] “Thousands of years” before
Scapegoat
.

[
96
] “Millennia” before
Forever Autumn.

[
97
] “Millennia” before
SJA: The Shadow People
.

[
98
] “Three thousand years” before
SJA: Eye of the Gorgon.

[
99
] “Thousands of years” before
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
.

[
100
]
Other Lives
. The Queen was a contemporary of King Solomon, who lived circa 970-928 BC.

[
101
] “Three thousand years” before
SJA: Enemy of the Bane
.

[
102
]
The Daemons

[
103
]
The Song of the Megaptera
. The Biblical book of
Jonah
is set during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 BC).

[
104
]
K9: Dream-Eaters
. No date is specified, and the information that the obelisk dates to “Celtic” times doesn’t pin one down.

[
105
]
Seasons of Fear

[
106
] Dating
Benny: Walking to Babylon
(Benny NA #10) - The year is given.

[
107
]
Option Lock.
Pythagoras lived 580-500 BC.

[
108
] The fourth Doctor name-drops Sun Tzu in
The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
, and the seventh Doctor and Ace refer to meeting him in
The Shadow of the Scourge
.

[
109
]
Set Piece
, during the “Fourth Century BCE”.

[
110
] Three thousand years before
Benny: Tempest
.

[
111
]
Benny: The Empire State
. The legend of the Stone claims it’s “about three thousand years old”, and Benny (speaking from 2607) says it has existed for “the whole of recorded human history”. Braxiatel concurs, but also says he was inert as the Stone “for a couple of millennia”. In
Benny: The Judas Gift
, Bev Tarrant says Braxiatel spent “three thousand years asleep”.

[
112
]
The Daemons
,
City of Death.

[
113
] “One hundred generations” before
Four to Doomsday.

[
114
]
The Vampires of Venice
. Records suggest that the Olympic Games were first held in 776 BC.

[
115
]
The Spectre of Lanyon Moor.
This would be around 440 BC.

[
116
]
Enlightenment
. Pericles died, age 70, in 429 BC.

[
117
]
Robot
. Alexander lived 356-323 BC.

[
118
]
The Keys of Marinus
. Pyrrho lived c.360-270 BC.

[
119
]
The Slitheen Excursion

[
120
]
Omega.
This would have been around 350 BC.

[
121
]
Horror of Fang Rock
,
Logopolis.

[
122
] “Voyager”

[
123
]
City at World’s End
,
The Two Doctors
. Archimedes lived c.287-212 BC.

[
124
]
Island of Death

[
125
]
Eye of Heaven
(p181). Eratosthenes lived c.276-194 BC.

[
126
]
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark

[
127
] “The Crimson Hand”. Depictions of Zephyrus and Hyacinth (a target of Zaphyrus’ love, and killed by him when Hyacinth favoured Apollo) date back to the fifth century BC.

[
128
] Dating
Benny: The Oracle of Delphi
(Benny audio #6.5) - The year is given. Historically, the plague that struck Athens in 430 BC returned in 429 and 427 BC.

[
129
]
Benny: Epoch: The Kraken’s Lament

[
130
]
The Fires of Pompeii
. Presumably this refers to the original Sybil, at Delphi.

[
131
] “Three thousand years, give or take” (p51) years before
Benny: The Doomsday Manuscript.

[
132
]
TW: The Sin Eaters
. The year isn’t given, but the historical record suggests that eruptions occurred at Etna in 396 BC, 122 BC, 1030, 1160 (or possibly 1224), 1669, 1928, 1949, 1971, 1981, 1983 and 1991 to 1993.

[
133
]
Survival of the Fittest
. Aristotle lived 384 to 322 BC.

[
134
] Dating
Farewell, Great Macedon
(BF LS #2.1) - The year is given at least three times. The Doctor’s group spends some “long weeks” with Alexander before leaving on the day of his death, which is cited as “June 13th”. (A solid claim, although his passing is alternatively ascribed to the 10th or the 11th.)