english: By the time the field of archaeology  began to take shape in the 19th century, many were skeptical, considering the epic to be pure fiction, a founding myth imagining  a bygone heroic era.
non_english: Do vremena kada je oblast arheologije počela da poprima oblik u XIX veku, mnogi su bili skeptični, smatrajući ep čistom fikcijom, osnivački mit kojim se zamišlja davno nestala herojska epoha.