David Rohl holds a degree in Ancient History and Egyptology from University College London. He is a former rock musician and is the author of three best-selling history books^{[229][230][232]} that controversially proposed a New Chronology for the ancient eastern Mediterranean and has presented television documentary programmes on the same subject. He has also argued for the Garden of Eden being situated in what is now north western Iran^[230].

Unexpectedly, he has written an introduction to Andrew Collins’ bestseller, Gateway to Atlantis, in which he expresses his regret for the lack of firm archaeological evidence to support the existence of Atlantis, but is clearly sympathetic to the idea and is somewhat supportive of an Atlantic location.  

Peter James is another high profile historian who has advocated^[046] a similar radical revision of the chronologies of the Mediterranean and Near East. James has also written a controversial work on Atlantis, placing it in ancient  .