For those who want proof of the exodus

[GrandizerII]

Quite right, Ir.  One of the things that Rohl jacked off on was the pit graves.  Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, the noted sleazebag Simcha Jacobovici in his widely discredited "The Exodus Decoded" also went nuts over the pit graves containing young men (although Jacobovci was trying to twist the chronology in the other direction to tie it to the Santorini eruption.)  As one reviewer noted of Jacobovici's work:

Exhibit I: Male Plague Victims. Jacobovici asserts that mass burials of males in pit graves at Tell el-Daba are evidence for plague 10, the death of the firstborn. However, he presents only part of the evidence. As usual, there is a chronological problem. The burials are from the early 18th Dynasty, after the expulsion of the Hyksos. In addition, the individuals have a very narrow age range: between 18 and 25. We would expect victims of plague 10 to be younger than 18 and older than 25. Anthropological examination has shown that some of the individuals were Nubians, commonly employed in the Egyptian army in this time period. Since the burials were in the area of a military camp and arrowheads were found in the graves, the most logical explanation is that the burials were soldiers from the Egyptian army. The excavator concludes, “They were probably soldiers who died in the camps from diseases over a period of time” (Bietak 2005: 13).

-- Chris Heard   Higgaion

That's what happens when they don't challenge their initial interpretation of the evidence. It's clear both Rohl and Mahoney (and Jacobovici) want the Exodus to be true, so no investment is made on their part in trying to falsify their own claims or come up with better explanations. The main point of the scientific method is to reveal what is true regardless of what we wish for to be the truth. And that's done through repetition, tests, and so on.