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.
Bell's theory has been refuted by Egyptologists, including Stephan Seidlmayer, who corrected his calculations. Seidlmayer showed that the annual Nile floods were at normal levels during Ninetjer's reign up to the Old Kingdom period. Bell had mistakenly focused only on measurements from nilometers near Memphis and neglected data from other parts of Egypt.