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Diogenes of Babylon posted an update 6 years ago
Put on a pair of scholarly boxing gloves & join the vigorous debates in the Comments Sections of the following 3 articles.
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
How Fake Is Church History?
The Gregorian Coup and the Birthright Theft
https://www.unz.com/article/how-fake-is-church-history/
How Long Was the First Millenium?
Gunnar Heinsohn’s stratigraphy-based chronology
https://www.unz.com/article/how-long-was-the-first-millenium/
Skimmed through the Roman Antiquity one. Interesting to read some of the comments. IMHO, recentist arguments don’t hold up, for any number of reasons. But I don’t doubt that official history is sprinkled with forgeries, exaggerations, and lies. For example, much (or all?) of what we know about the Gallic Wars, and what is often stated as accepted fact, comes from Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, which was at least partly a propaganda piece to help his rise to power. So the objectivity is skewed from the get-go.
The idea that Latin is somehow not a “natural” language is kind of ridiculous. It has all kinds of resemblances to other Indo-European languages, which I guess would also be “unnatural.” Doesn’t hold water. Anyhow, some interesting stuff for us history buffs!