How do we know the Roman Empire even existed? What if scholars

How do you know you're not a hologram.

FINALLY someone reveals the truth

>>2999860
The Jews did it

>>2999860

Hmmm, a fanatical Empire bent on the conquest of Europe which also cucked the jews filled with a mix of military and occultist leaders.

Sounds fishy to me

>>2999860
It was actually created by the same scholars who invented G*rmany to give them an ancient enemy.

>>2999860
Jesus. /thread

Honestly pretty bad bait but Rome was mentioned as Da Qin in Chinese sources starting from the 2nd century BCE. Chinese dynasties received several Roman embassies via the sea route of the Silk Road.

>>2999990
Tacticus only mentions that Jesus existed and was crucified. I'm pretty sure he never mentions who crucified him

>>2999998
If they were mentioned as "Da Qin" how do we know they're referring to Rome?

question:
is that true that dark age has no bright colours such that green trees and grass didn't exist in that period?

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>>3001066
actually yes. It was bufore it was invented

>>3001066
Bright colors stopped existing after the WRE fell. They were restored when the Byzantines came to Italy after the Ottomans conquered their empire. It was a Renaissance of color, you could say.

>>3000000

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>>2999998
>BCE

>>2999860

> What if scholars from the late Middle Ages just made up a story

all of them, simultaneously in spite distance and national affiliation ?

>to explain all the statues and architecture?

that somehow sprung up on their own without massive civilization that designed and constructed them ?
not to mention we have massive amount of archeological evidence, period inscriptions and carbon dated artifacts that seem to confirm the story
a question like that means either inept trolling or massive misunderstanding how the historic record is kept and expanded

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>>2999860
>Jean Hardouin (1646 – September 3, 1729), French classical scholar, was born at Quimper in Brittany.
>The most remarkable, contained in his Chronologiae ex nummis antiquis restitutae (1696) and Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorum, was to the effect that, with the exception of the works of Homer, Herodotus and Cicero, the Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, all the ancient classics of Greece and Rome were spurious, having been manufactured by monks of the 13th century, under the direction of a certain Severus Archontius with whom he might have meant Frederick II. [2] He denied the genuineness of most ancient works of art, coins and inscriptions, and declared that the New Testament was originally written in Latin, as he underlined with good reasoning in his short work Prolegomena which appeared in the year he died, 1729.[3] The Prolegomena were translated by Edwin Johnson and published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1909, with a noteworthy preface of Edward A. Petherick.

Just how full of shit was Hardouin?

>>3002003
Also, I only got to this from the Wikipedia page for Fomenko's New Chronology

of course rome existed
there was the hbo show and a spartacus show
how else would we have these shows if rome was pretend
do you people even think critically or just regurgitate wikipedia?

>>3001932

Sorry, anon. You can whine all you like, it's becoming the new standard in most published material anyway.

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>>3004032
except it's not.
any respectable historian still uses bc/ad.
I return any book that uses bce desu, may as well just browse /r/atheism instead