What's the most Cringeworthy take on Actual History/Archeology you've ever read?

[Space Murica]

Yes, I remember this well from my unfortunate childhood, other highlights include "the Grand Canyon was formed by the Biblical Deluge" and "the patriarchs in Genesis actually lived that long because there was like, an after-effect of the Garden of Eden's immortality (?)"

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while those are beliefs, they are not the only ones. Sometimes the Grand Canyon was Flood formed, sometimes it was a local flooding by a ice age derived lake. Sometimes the patriarchs live for centuries because of a different pre flood atmosphere, usually it was because of perfect and diverse genes, with the decline in lifespan being attributed to the genetic bottle neck of the Flood. And while obviously the Flood gets most of the attention, what with the sea floor recycling itself multiple times along with every asteroid impact ever happening in just ~2 years, you should see Young Earth cosmology, aka trying to explain light from billions of light years away