They had the stranger purpose of finding “evidence” that linked German ancestry to the Aryan master race ... epic power struggle within the Roman Empire between Nordic and Semitic peoples.

The Empire, in the meantime ... featuring many less-than-noble episodes to a useful but somewhat simplistic story about the noble Allies who defeated the evil Nazis because they were better ...

However, recent observations of the Rapa Nui's downfall tell a different story. In most tellings ... This theory was known as the "Aryan Invasion Theory." However, this idea was discredited ...