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So there are not the same sorts of biasses at work.

Correct and it is a big factor.  Instead, they make the Egyptology story into a virtual religion and it becomes heresy to doubt.  When geologist Robert Schoch reported that intense rain had been a major factor in the erosion of the Giza plateau ( meaning that it had happened long before 4th Dynasty Egypt) one of them said something to the effect of "What does he know?  He can't even read Egyptian."

No.  But he read the rocks.


As far as the "house of Peter the fisherman" this is a little more xtian horseshit.  Honestly, there is no group of people who are so ready to bullshit themselves than xtians.  Excavators..who by the way were Franciscan monks, dug out an old church and found found the remnants of a house which dated to the first century BC.  Since a church was built over it they determined that it "must have been" Peter's house otherwise why would they build a church there?

On such shaky foundations is xtian bullshit based.


http://socrates58.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09...-been.html

Buried beneath the remains of an octagonal Byzantine martyrium church, excavators found the ruins of a rather mundane dwelling dating to the first century B.C.

Octagonal martyria were built to commemorate an important site, such as the original house of Peter that once stood here. The inner sanctum of the octagonal building was built directly above the remains of the very room of the first-century house that had formed the central hall of the earlier church. 

. . . Were it not for its association with Jesus and Peter, why else would a run-of-the-mill first-century house in Capernaum have become a focal point of Christian worship and identity for centuries to come?

Like I said - they are champions when it comes to bullshitting themselves.