[Phreddie]

Well, besides the influence of the commies that are obvioulsy behind it, they are just trying to prove that the greeks invented Communism, seeing as saying that has helped the Democracies of the world.

On a serious note, I dont pretend to know the complexities of his calculations, but there is another way we know of dates, in a more relative fashion. Carbon Dating, we have found artifacts from those periods, and used carbon dating (not that I know what it is, except that it uses carbon i think, please correct me if wrong) to establish what period it is from. I doubt he can get by the science that comes from beneath the Earth, even if it might look like its wrong from above. Besides, every one knows historians exagerate, the winners write the history books for a reason, to make them selves look good, and when the losers escape and write their own, they blame their loss on some phenomena they cante xplain, like Thucydides eclipse.