Pictures from 3000-5000 years ago? Sorry, I still don’t buy it. Science has become the same as politics, a bunch of self serving lies, only used to deceive the public. And we can’t dispute it because they are the “experts”.
Experts dispute among themselves even more than with Know Nothings. Sure there are drawings, writings and cravings which tell you a lot about, say Egyptian, life 4000 yrs ago. Plus, there are many bodies that can be examined forensically and a great deal of information can be derived about their lifestyles, diets, medical practices, drugs etc.
We have fragments of their clothing, furniture, jewelry, ruins of their cities, weapons and more.
Nothing is easier than to condemn that of which you know nothing significant.
Can we draw certain conclusions about the more abstract elements of life: religion, philosophy, why certain things occurred when they did? No, but one thing we can tell is that the Egyptians did not live like brutes or savages but rather formed one of the greatest civilizations in history. They achieved things that took four thousand years to replicate and some things which cannot be replicated even with our massive machines and advanced technology. Do we know how? No.
Mesopotamian astronomical calculations and observations were not duplicated for thousands of years as well. But we are in the infancy of the study of those civilizations since the translation of their records recorded on clay tablets has only recently become possible. We are introduced to the first hero in history and his adventures, Gilgamesh, through them.
Greece, of course, we know a lot about since we have the writings and observations of the greatest philosophers the earth has ever seen to study. Homer informs us about a huge amount of information, unbelievably huge in fact.
The Public is only deceived when it buries its head in the sand, as it mostly does unless someone gives it a kick in the butt.
Should the “expert” be accepted without doubt? Of course not they should be paid close attention to and questioned when things do not make sense or when their conclusions are self-serving rather that truthful. But the Lie will be found out.
But we can pull out our 'ceremonial' swords and daggers and slaughter them at will...