08 October 2010

Breaking News: Ancient Greece Entirely Fabricated

You suspected it, all along:

According to Haddlebury, the idea of inventing a wholly fraudulent ancient culture came about when he and other scholars realized they had no idea what had actually happened in Europe during the 800-year period before the Christian era.

Frustrated by the gap in the record, and finding archaeologists to be "not much help at all," they took the problem to colleagues who were then scrambling to find a way to explain where things such as astronomy, cartography, and democracy had come from.

Within hours the greatest and most influential civilization of all time was born.

"One night someone made a joke about just taking all these ideas, lumping them together, and saying the Greeks had done it all 2,000 years ago," Haddlebury said. "One thing led to another, and before you know it, we're coming up with everything from the golden ratio to the Iliad."

"That was a bitch to write, by the way," he continued, referring to the pic poem believed to have laid the foundation for the Western literary tradition. "But it seemed to catch on."
I bet! It takes a long time to read, it must have taken at least a week to write.

NOW we know what's up with the scaffolding. They just built it!
Emily Nguyen-Whiteman, one of the young academics who "pulled a month's worth of all-nighters" working on the project, explained that the whole of ancient Greek architecture was based on buildings in Washington, D.C., including a bank across the street from the coffee shop where they met to "bat around ideas about mythology or whatever."

"We picked Greece because we figured nobody would ever go there to check it out," Nguyen-Whiteman said. "Have you ever seen the place? It's a dump. It's like an abandoned gravel pit infested with cats."

She added, "Inevitably, though, people started looking around for some of this 'ancient' stuff, and next thing I know I'm stuck in Athens all summer building a goddamn Parthenon just to cover our tracks."
Read the rest here.

5 comments:

  1. There is no way that this is made up!

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  2. Check the source for this article. It's pretty credible!

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  3. I see everyone circulating this, being so damn suprized...
    Didn't any single one of you look into what THE ONION actually is??

    From wiki:

    The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club.

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  4. AKA the best source of news in the WORLD dude!!!

    Another reason to know your sources, especially in fields like archaeology that are prone to wild speculation...

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  5. Yes not only did they invent it, but buried all the marble art, and written sources all over the world so that they can be discovered. Imagine the hard work cutting all those coins, making and breaking all that pottery. According to this all ancient Greek art in museums all over the world has no value at all. Therefore damp them all to Greece, especially those Parthenon marbles which are a waste of space in the British museum.
    Give them back.They've got no value at all.

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