Other than mathematicians, no field is forced to deal with anything like the deluge of radical theories, typically from amateurs or academics outside the field, that face those who study the ancient world. Those who study ancient Greece, for example, had to deal with the British Prime Minister William Gladstone’s...

The Pyramids at Giza in Egypt represent one of the most astounding wonders of the ancient world. Due to the complexity required to build them, and the limited amount of modern machinery available at the time, the pyramids and their construction have been considered a mystery in that the modern...