 Bell's theory is refuted today by Egyptologists such as Stephan Seidlmayer, who corrected Bell's calculations.Seidlmayer has shown that the annual Nile floods were at usual levels at Ninetjer's time up to the period of the Old Kingdom.Bell had overlooked, that the heights of the Nile floods in the Palermo stone inscription only takes the measurements of the nilometers around Memphis into account, but not elsewhere in Egypt.