B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (76 page)

[
23
] “Six thousand years” (pgs 149, 178) before
The Glamour Chase
.

[
24
] “Several thousand years” before
The Forgotten Army
. The Vykoids must be working from wretched intelligence, if they came to Earth expecting to find T-Rexes, Triceratops and Diplodocuses some tens of millions of years after they died out.

[
25
] “The Gods Walk Among Us”. The archaeologists estimate that the tomb is “five thousand five hundred” years old in 1926, so it was built around 3574 BC.

[
26
] The TARDIS is plainly seen in some hieroglyphs in
Love & Monsters
, even though the Ship would not be represented as a phone box icon under such a language system. Egyptian hieroglyphs were in use from 3200 BC to 400 AD.

[
27
] “2523 years” before
Primeval.

[
28
] “Millennia” before
Benny: A Life in Pieces
.

[
29
] “Thousands of years” before
The Fires of Pompeii.

[
30
] “Thousands of years”, if not more, before
The Suffering
. The “fourth galaxy” could be a reference to the home of the Drahvins in
Galaxy 4
, and for all we’re told, the exiled woman might hail from their race. Interestingly, both the Drahvins and the race in
The Suffering
have culled the males of their population.

[
31
]
K9: The Last Oak Tree

[
32
] “Millennia” before the 2009 portion of
TW: Risk Assessment.

[
33
]
The Way Through the Woods
. In Europe, the Bronze Age lasted 3200-600 BC.

[
34
] Dating
Timewyrm: Genesys
(NA #1) - The Doctor says the TARDIS is heading for “Mesopotamia, 2700 BC”.

[
35
] “City of Devils”

[
36
] Dating “The Forgotten” (IDW
DW
mini-series #2) - It is “most likely around the twenty-sixth century BC”. Menkaure ruled in the late twenty-sixth century BC, although historians can’t be sure of the exact dates. In the Doctor’s personal timeline, this is after
Marco Polo
but before
The Aztecs
. He already knows of the Osirians.

[
37
] Dating
The Daleks’ Master Plan
(3.4) - The three time machines land at the base of a “Great Pyramid” that has nearly been completed. This might well be the Great Pyramid of King Khufu (Cheops in Greek), one of the Seven Wonders of the World. John Peel’s novelisation of the story names it as such, and also says “Khufu lay in his final illness” (p72). Khufu died in 2566 BC; the Great Pyramid was built over a twenty year period, ending around 2560 BC.
The Terrestrial Index
pins the date at “2620 BC”;
The Discontinuity Guide
offers a wider range of “2613 BC - 2494 BC”.
Timelink
says 2635 BC.

[
38
] Dating
Benny: The Grel Escape
(Benny audio #5.1) - The story takes place in ancient Egypt, and it’s entirely possible that the Anubis seen here was an Osirian.

[
39
]
The Skull of Sobek
; see the dating notes on this story. It’s not entirely clear if Sobek’s downfall triggered a migration of its culture to other planets, or if the crocodilians had dealings with other species beforehand. If the former is true, the crocodilians must have immense lifespans, as the prince and Snabb are still around ten thousand years later. The fact that Snabb spends a full century scouring one sector of space for the Skull somewhat supports this notion, as does the fact that he only eats once a year (which suggests a slow, life-extending metabolism).

[
40
]
Colony in Space
. The date isn’t given, but this is when the Crab Nebula was formed. It was first visible on Earth from 1054.

[
41
] Unspecified “thousands of years” before
Bad Therapy.

[
42
]
City of Death
. Scaroth says that he caused “the heavens to be mapped”, and mankind’s first star maps were made in China around 2300 BC.

[
43
] “Over four thousand years” before
The Burning.
The entity is drawn to Earth as the result of events in Siberia, 1894, in
Time Zero
.

[
44
] According to the Doctor in
Four to Doomsday
.

[
45
]
Deadly Reunion
. It’s suggested the “gods” were the product of the Daemons’ experiments.

[
46
] “Thousands of years” before
The Hounds of Artemis.

[
47
]
The Quantum Archangel

[
48
]
The Time Monster

[
49
] Dating
Fallen Gods
(TEL #10) - It’s “the Bronze Age” (p91). This is a retelling of the creation of the Atlantis as related in
The Time Monster
.

[
50
] “Nearly four thousand years” before the 1974 component of “Agent Provocateur”.

[
51
] “The Curse of the Scarab”. The casket is “four thousand” years old. The fourth year of the twelfth dynasty would be around 1988 BC.
Pyramids of Mars
placed the imprisonment of Sutekh “seven thousand” years ago, but this dating does coincide with the dating given for events of
The Sands of Time
, perhaps suggesting that the Osirians maintained some sort of presence in ancient Egypt for millennia.

[
52
] Dating “The Power of Thoueris” (
DWM
#333) - No date is given, and this is clearly not the height of Osirian power, so it’s been placed at the same time as events of the backstory for “The Curse of the Scarab”.

[
53
] “Four thousand years” (p21) before
The Glamour Chase
.

[
54
] Dating
The Sands of Time
(MA #22) - The date is given (p57).

[
55
]
The Stones of Blood. The Terrestrial Index
dated Cessair’s arrival on Earth at “3000 BC”, but this contradicts the Doctor and Megara, both of whom claim that only “four thousand” years have elapsed since Cessair came to Earth.

[
56
]
SJA: The Thirteenth Stone.
There’s no evidence that the practice here of turning alien convicts into rock has any relation to
The Stones of Blood
.

[
57
]
SJA: The Lost Boy

[
58
] “Five thousand years” before
The Ultimate Treasure
.

[
59
] “Thousands of years” (p236) before
Fear Itself
.

[
60
]
Deadly Reunion
(p115). The first part of the book takes place in 1944, and Persephone says she is three thousand, seven hundred and two years old.

[
61
] “Several millennia” before “Invaders from Gantac”. The Daleks do not appear to have been created until after this point, so the ones referred to here must be time travellers.

[
62
] Dating
The Slitheen Excursion
(NSA #32) - The year is given as “1500 BC” on the back cover and page 25. Real-life renderings of the founder of Athens (Cecrops I) do, in fact, depict him as a human with a giant fish tail for legs. Events here are unrelated to the fall of Atlantis.

[
63
] Dating
The Time Monster
(9.5) - The traditional date for the fall of Atlantis is around 1500 BC, and the Doctor states on returning to the twentieth century at the end of this story that it was “three thousand five hundred years ago”.
The Terrestrial Index
and
The Discontinuity Guide
both suggested the traditional date of 1500 BC, the FASA Role-playing game claimed 10,000 BC.
The TARDIS Logs
included the presumed misprint of 1520 AD.
Timelink
goes for 1529 BC.

[
64
]
The Underwater Menace

[
65
]
The Underwater Menace, The Daemons.

The Fall of Atlantis

We hear of/witness the destruction of Atlantis in three stories:
The Underwater Menace, The Daemons
and
The Time Monster
. In
The Underwater Menace
, the island in question is in the Atlantic, and in
The Time Monster
, “Atlantis” is another name for the Minoan civilisation in the Mediterranean. In
The Daemons
, Azal warns the Master that “My race destroys its failures. Remember Atlantis!”.
The Terrestrial Index
attempts to explain this by suggesting that the Daemons supplied the Minoan civilisation with the Kronos Crystal. This might be true, but there is no hint of it on screen.

[
66
] Dating
Benny: Year Zero
(
Benny
audio #11.3),
Benny: Dead Man’s Switch
(
Benny
audio #11.4) and
Benny: Epoch
(box set #1, contains
The Kraken’s Lament
, 1.1;
The Temple of Questions
, 1.2;
Private Enemy No. 1
, 1.3;
Judgement Day
, 1.4) - These six stories occur in a central alternate reality (and two subsidiary realities) as crafted by the Epoch. Three years elapse between
Dead Man’s Switch
and the
Benny: Epoch
stories, with Benny in stasis. In
Judgement Day
, she returns to her native era in a timeless state while the universe ages around her, which very much suggests that the Epoch’s timeline/s are located in the past. Rightly or wrongly, Benny suspects this is the case as early as
Year Zero
. In
Epoch: Judgement Day
, she tells a robot attendant in 2616 to not recite everything that’s happened in the “last however-many-millennia...” while she was in stasis.

Benny’s unsubstantiated deductions aside, it’s never resolutely established in what era, subjectively speaking, the Epoch timelines exist. Big Finish producer Gary Russell (who took over the Benny audios from John Ainsworth after
Dead Man’s Switch
) confirmed that the dating was left vague, and that, “the Atlantis Benny knows [in
Benny: Epoch
] could be any time from real Atlantis to Victorian times, or indeed the twenty-fifth century”. With that in mind, this clutch of stories have been arbitrarily placed as rough contemporaries of the Atlantis seen in
The Time Monster
.