I wholeheartedly agree. The Oracle of Delphi was "dubunked" by some French nitwit in the late 19th or early 20th century. He claimed that the surviving ancient descriptions of the temple interior were all made up. Turns out, when some actual scientists and scholars finally decided to check things about at the site about 25 years ago, they found the site in perfect accord with the ancient description. It ain't just the Bible that has been taking it on the chin for the past 170 years...
Interesting and enlightening fact about academia, is that while many in the industry promote and rely on accounts of rape, pillage, and “blood running in the streets” that they accept on face value, they are skeptical of other accounts of the siege without hard evidence.