What was long time thought as “historical” facts often turned out to be nonsense and there is a lot of historical revisionism happening all the time.
I think if you write a historical fiction it is a moral obligation to add quite a bit of editorial context as a foreword or addendum to allow the reader to differentiate between unknowns, artistic freedom, historical interpretations and actual archeological evidence.
What was long time thought as “historical” facts often turned out to be nonsense and there is a lot of historical revisionism happening all the time.
I think if you write a historical fiction it is a moral obligation to add quite a bit of editorial context as a foreword or addendum to allow the reader to differentiate between unknowns, artistic freedom, historical interpretations and actual archeological evidence.