Reply #39: yes, a very serious study

[InvisibleBallots]

Perhaps for the first time, the same sort of higher criticism we've done to Christian sources used on classical and humanist sources. Now as to your points:

"Exactly why would all the countries of the world labour so hard to create a completely false, but consistent, history?"

The motivations are spelled out pretty clearly in Machiavelli, and it's generally assumed that Vatican writers did. Why are the others not up to the same scrutiny? Of course, the history is NOT in any way shape or form "consistent".

"Think of all those buildings and tombs they'd have had to fake - while preventing everyone from ever recording the massive building works going on all around them."

What? Who said anything about faking buildings and tombs? Perhaps you need to re-read.

"All the scientific dating methods like carbon dating and dendrochronology are falsified, are they?"

Who said that, aside from you? As for the carbon dating of various artifacts, okay, let's see them? Where? Are you referring to carbon dating done of classical writings? Okay, have any carbon dating of Dante texts? Or carbon dating of Homer manuscripts? Let me know...