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Line 21: ==Nationalism and ancient history== {{further\|Indigenism}} Nationalist ideologies frequently employ results of [[archaeology]] and [[ancient history]] as [[propaganda]], often significantly distorting them to fit their aims, cultivating national [[mythology\|mythologies]] and [[national mysticism]]. Frequently this involves the uncritical identification of one's own [[ethnic group]] with some ancient or even prehistoric (known only archaeologically) group,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.umass.edu/wsp/methodology/delusions/antiquity.html \|title=Archived copy \|accessdate=2007-09-29 \|deadurl=yes \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529161723/http://www.umass.edu/wsp/methodology/delusions/antiquity.html \|archivedate=29 May 2007 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> whether mainstream scholarship accepts as plausible or reject as [[pseudoarchaeology]] the historical derivation of the contemporary group from the ancient one. The decisive point, often assumed implicitly, that it is possible to derive nationalist or ethnic pride from a population that lived millennia ago and, being known only archaeologically or epigraphically, is not remembered in living tradition. Examples include [[Kurds]] claiming identity with the [[Medes]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.let.uu.nl/~martin.vanbruinessen/personal/publications/Bruinessen_Ethnic_identity_Kurds.pdf\|title=The Ethnic Identity of the Kurds in Turkey Martin van Bruinessen\|publisher=}}</ref> [[Albanian people\|Albanians]] claiming as their origin the [[Illyrians]],<ref>Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and [[Bernd Jürgen Fischer]]. ''Albanian Identities''. 2002, page 73-4</ref> [[Bulgarians]] claiming identity with the [[Thracians]], [[Iraqi people\|Iraqi]] propaganda invoking [[Sumer]] or [[Babylonia]],<ref>{{Citation \|last= Harkhu\|first=Umangh \|authorlink= \|coauthors= \|year=2005\|month= \|title=Does History Repeat Itself? The Ideology Of Saddam Hussein And The Mesopotamian Era \|journal=Scientia Militaria / South African Journal of Military Studies \|volume= 33\|issue= 1\|pages=47–71 \|issn=1022-8136 \|url=http://academic.sun.ac.za/mil/scientia_militaria/internet%20vol%2033%281%29/combined.pdf \|accessdate= \|quote= }}</ref> [[Georgians]] claiming as their origin the [[Mushki]], [[Hindu nationalist]]s claiming as their origin the [[Indus Valley Civilization]] — all of the mentioned groups being known only from either ancient historiographers or archaeology. In extreme cases, nationalists will ignore the process of [[ethnogenesis]] altogether and claim ethnic identity of their own group with some scarcely attested ancient ethnicity known to scholarship by the chances of textual transmission or archaeological excavation. Line 106: ==External links== [https://web.archive.org/web/20070529161723/http://www.umass.edu/wsp/methodology/delusions/antiquity.html Antiquity Frenzy] [http://www.hallofmaat.com/ The Hall of Maat] {{Use dmy dates\|date=January 2011}}