we _want it to be true_ - but, sadly, it isn't

What puzzles me is firstly, what in any of these articles significantly gainsays the basic premise of the original story (that there is a continuity of technology linking the earliest known horse-drawn transport and the latest in space-age craft), and secondly, why there should be such a passionate interest in 'debunking' as a sport?

There seems an almost gleeful level of shadenfreude involved at which I can only chuckle!