Thanks for the update.
Also, as for: “AND HERE’S A LAUGH, and maybe a good long cry:”
Them people are NVTS....
There at least used to be some (more than one) forum over on Delphi Forums, run by Roman Piso. Another howler (related to that ridiculous hoax “theory”) was a short-lived (perhaps by the same joker, or perhaps concocted as an elaborate lampoon) “theory” that the Roman Empire was hoaxed ad hoc, as a way to justify the Venetian Empire of the late medieval and the Renaissance. Imagine, Hadrian’s Wall wasn’t built by Hadrian, because there never was a Hadrian. Of course, the wacky “New Chronology” out of Russia (not related to the New Chronology by David Rohl) claims that King Arthur was actually a Russian, that whole dynasties in England were really distorted versions of earlier Byzantine rulers, etc etc.