What really bothers me more about this type of article than the ideological slant is the hyperbolic nature of the claims that end up decontextualizing them. Peo

What really bothers me more about this type of article than the ideological slant is the hyperbolic nature of the claims that end up decontextualizing them. People in the 1920s would not have been 'rocked' at all to discover the existence of an ancient Mesopotamian queen. They were raised on stories of Semiramis and the Queen of Sheba - in fact, I'd bet quite a bit more of the 1920s population knew who these two people were than the 2020s population, since education and even pop culture then was much more informed by classical literature. Telling the story like this totally transforms the context in a way that makes it just wrong, to make it more impressive to the modern reader. This is really common nowadays in news articles, too.