even before the German Indiana Jones looked at TROY the whole world of Scientists Historians and book-sellers(the people who knows everything) tought it was just ' a story ' with no stones anywere
so about Crete
the NICE thing is that many criticized this german digger (he wasn't even an archeologist, but more like an historical sites destroyer) and this man going on fantasy gave us pieces of history (not just written, but found)
the more we go on the more we find artifacts underwater, and underwater archeology is something we know maybe only since 50 years (while we had the Colosseum up there since 2 thousend years, how can i NOT see it ?)
look around all the univerisities of the world going undersea everywere in the world are finding nice artifacts (from Peru to Australia to Japan to Mediterranean area)
we know a lot (or nothing) but we dont know a lot of the civilizations who lived between 9.000 to 4.000
(megalith era, biblical tsunami, new civilizations)
the world changed, and everything restarted ( if not from 0, by 1 )
university studies (wherever u wanna look at) says that between scotland and norway (where the sea-ground level is higher than in the middle of the ocean) long time ago it could have been full of settlements
if the world ends today, we have a lot to remember (knowledge and stuff) if the world ends when it's just starting to getting civilized, is like burning not even a grown and old forest, but just a garden with little grass, what do you expect to find ?)
(probably who gave the inputs to Greeks, Etruscians, people living in Ireland-England, whatever)
but they do surely had someone who gave them knowledge (now we can think it was the CAVE-MAN or maybe someone better)
once they tought Americas people was just born there, now its asians moving from alaska, now again also europeans have been there (11-9k years ago) thru the ice-sheet) (check DNA coincidences and related studies)
there is so much to know that i wouldnt just laugh at a discovery ( or glitch )
we even laugh about a pacific islander that 9000 years ago sailed from New Zealand to Easter Island
(WHOAH HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE, with just a palm tree and some leeves! no way !)
(its not about aliens, its about natural disasters and normal human evolution )
i we think we know everything about us, we put limitation to our intelligence, but at that point we would just stay at the monkey level (wich also is developing intelligence-and knowledge if you follow also that kind of studies, thanks to the interactions with the humans)