The trope that some modern nation or culture 'invented' or 'created' something centuries or millennia before the modern incarnation existed is a tried and true

The trope that some modern nation or culture 'invented' or 'created' something centuries or millennia before the modern incarnation existed is a tried and true page from the nationalist handbook[1]. It's unfortunate that it's so common and readily accepted. The real history of these kinds of finds is usually so much more interesting. [1] Not that I think the article or it's authors have a nationalist agenda.