'a group of leading historians held a press conference monday at the national geographic society to announce they had "entirely fabricated" ancient greece, a culture long thought to be the intellectual basis of western civilization.
the group acknowledged that the idea of a sophisticated, flourishing society existing in greece more than two millennia ago was a complete fiction created by a team of some two dozen historians, anthropologists, and classicists who worked nonstop between 1971 and 1974 to forge "greek" documents and artifacts.'
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