Reply #22: what, one scholar?

[InvisibleBallots]

Of course not. Most of the writings you mention, of course, were "discovered" buried or lost in monestaries somewhere. No one in Europe had ever heard about any of these authors, then various groups of people start "discovering" ancient manuscripts.

"buried the rosetta stone in northern Africa, and went around writing latin graffiti on roman ruins (including those buried by the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius), built a bunch of pyramids and stele in Egypt and covered them with hieroglyphics to be deciphered in the 19th century, just to make it all look convincing"

I don't think you are being serious now. Can you give us solid dates for these artifacts? By that I mean publically available, peer reviewed dating for these artifacts?

And just for the record - during the Renaisance era writings, books, scuptures, paintings, and statues were "discovered" and sold as ancient - and exposed as frauds by the contemporaries. There is a long, long history of frauds done the Renaisaance - mentioned by people such as Isaac Newton, Acilla, etc.

It's a very interesting litany you have there - have you actually looked into any of this primary historical evidence for yourself - or did you read about this in abstracts and encyclopedias? Seriously.

Much of this hasn't even been looked at since the 1800s, when the standards in science and archaeology were very very primitive...