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A story can be based upon fantasy, fact, or any mixture of the two. Without investigating, one will never find out.
Seems fair. What line of investigation do you suggest? Literary? Archeological? Geological?

Obviously these "histories" are known about, so what makes you think they haven't been investigated beyond just gathering the stories?

Discover, verify, reconcile. Somewhat has indeed been done. Here is one example. And here is another. I have also found a better argument for giving attention to this history than I could quickly cobble together myself.

I would not restrict the investigation of history to these examples, but they are rightfully part of the reconciliation process, and may serve to verify some things also.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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