What Really Happened In The Past?
It is a broad, but fascinating topic for our round table this time. In this hectic time of change, with major new conspiracies regularly being unearthed, we should be reminded of, and appreciate, those who tried to preserve an accurate telling of past events in the face of cover-ups, white-washes, propaganda and blatant ignorance.
Many things in history did not happen as we are told in state education and main stream sources. What example do you have? Which topic do you find most intriguing?
Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion and voted and to u/Gottmituns for the winning suggestion.
As a historian you have to be like a police investigator. Do not believe your first impression, be doubtful, be like Sherlock Holmes not like Dr. Watson.
When it comes to books, as for example the Annals from Tacitus, which your link above refers to, it is astounding how they came alledegly from being lost in antiquity to be refound, translated (from a dead language) and published 1000 years later. Usually, the refound "original" gets lost again, but the copies survive. How convenient for forgery!