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Historiography: Will We Never Know the Truth?

Eyewitness accounts, travelers' notes, reports, letters, protocols on clay tablets, papyrus, bark, parchment and paper. It would seem that we can learn a lot about what happened, but history textbooks are constantly being rewritten, and it is not only about pleasing the authorities. Historians themselves are not always sure that the information obtained from ancient documents objectively reflect what happened.