I've been watching the Boys recently and you know what thought I had, Is this the level of unsubtly you have to go to with satire to make right-wingers get they're the target? : behindthebastards

Yeah, he's probably better with 18th century history but even modern history has its challenges for different reasons.

The problem with Antiquity is that there aren't many surviving sources, for instance the oldest complete biography of Alexander the Great we have was written by Plutarch 300 years after Alexander's death. Plutarch used older biographies as sources including one by Ptolemy I which were lost forever, to complicate things even more, we don't have manuscripts from that era either, just medieval copies which are traced back to the 1st century because of the type of language and writing style which corresponds to the era. Biographies of deposed Emperors like Nero had a strong biased against them and contradict what they contemporaries wrote about them in private letters.

That's why archeology is super important for Antiquity historians as it paints an accurate picture of daily life and in many cases helps to corroborate (or disprove) primary sources. By the Late Middle Ages historical research becomes much easier thanks to an abundance of original manuscripts, church records, letters and even book-keeping records from merchants, not to mention abundance of castles, armors, swords, bows, paintings and churches from that era.