I think a lot of historians etc. take the Bible, and Homer's Odysseus as legend or Myth along with other text from bygone eras. I think they hold some truths. THe writer's put some if not a lot of spin on the events to make them the heros. The more we dig up the past, the less stupid or more intellegent some of the early civilizations look in certain aspects. I don't know if anyone had seen the NOVA docutemtary on the finding of Archemedi's text. It was written over for some early Christian text. Some one photgraphed the text in the early 1900's from a book collection, then it disappeared in WW2. It resurfaced recently at an auction. With digital text enhancements they recovered more information. Some parts of it were higher level calculus that hadn't been seen before, or a t least forgotten.
Tom