That's my biggest beef with European historiography. Since ancient European history is my perhaps my favourite, I'm quite angry that most of what we have to go off of is biased in the favour of the Romans and Greeks. That's why when people think of ancient Europe they think of Rome and Greece. That's why the "Classics" are works by Roman and Greek authors. That's why the classical languages are Latin and Greek.

And with the aid of evangelical Catholic Christianity in the centuries after Constantinus made it their mission to destroy the Germanic, Celtic, and Baltic cultures and replace it with Roman law and Biblical morality and history.

This is an excerpt from Gildas, a British writer who lived in the 500s: "I shall, therefore, omit those ancient errors common to all the nations of the earth, in which, before Christ came in the flesh, all mankind were bound; nor shall I enumerate those diabolical idols of my country, which almost surpassed in number those of Egypt, and of which we still see some mouldering away within or without the deserted temples, with stiff and deformed features as was customary. Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to which the blind people paid divine honour. I shall also pass over the bygone times of our cruel tyrants ... I will only endeavour to relate the evils which Britain suffered in the times of the Roman emperors, and also those which she caused to distant states; but so far as lies in my power, I shall not follow the writings and records of my own country, which (if there ever were any of them) have been consumed in the fires of the enemy, or have accompanied my exiled countrymen into distant lands, but be guided by the relations of foreign writers, which, being broken and interrupted in many places, are therefore by no means clear."

Here Gildas, a monk, explicitly states that even though he is a HISTORIAN, he REFUSES to write about the religion of the Romano-Britons, famous landmarks, or the events of the reigns of the Briton kings. He is in a unique position, it being just a few decades after the first Saxons set foot on the British shore, to weave a song of what Britain was like before the Romans. Instead, he chooses to deliberately ignore his people's history before the Roman occupation. To this day, all we know of British history before Roman occupation amounts to, I believe, a few coins and several archaeological sites, and conjecture. He even admits that the "records of [his] country" have been either destroyed or "accompanied [his] countrymen into distant lands," yet he refuses to close the historical gap himself and provide a service to posterity.

It's this sort of closed-mindedness that resulted in the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, which is perhaps the greatest mass loss of knowledge in history. Forty thousand or so papyri, vella, waxen and wood tablets were destroyed by Christian Rome in the name of destroying paganism. The academies in Greece were also closed down and the works of the Greeks all but entirely destroyed in the name of rooting out all challengers to Christianity. The biggest miracle in Christianity, actually, is the fact that any knowledge from the ancient world even survived the blind and murderous rampage enacted by Christian Rome in destroying culture and knowledge.