The best remark I recall regarding historical [hysterical] science went something like:
It is far more scholarly and trustworthy to try to re-create history starting from the recent, known, recorded, past and assimilate data going backwards than it is to start at the beginning and go forwards.
The latter will increase suppositions, assumptions, and out right fairy-tale telling exponentially when compared w/ the former.
Of course then you must also include the most trustworthy history book found in the world, the [by far] #1 best selling book worldwide, the one that corresponds 100% w/ every bit of archaeology paralleled in it’s passages.
That book of course is - The Holy Bible.