Ancient History of Korea: Mystery Unveiled. Second Edition

By Lee Mosol MD MPH

Ancient History of Korea. Second Edition is a thesis that Dr. Lee presents to the worldly scholars in every sectors.
Though Chinese history has that the legendary Gija () went to Joseon at the end of Shang dynasty(; c. 1046 BC) and came back to the west Zhou within few years, no one has yet confirmed the birth place of Joseon. Korean had used the standard method of studying history, but couldn’t find it. He convinced that Chinese concealed the facts and spread out false information. Korean used a wrong method to find facts concealed by the criminals. He applied a new methodology with a series of syllogism and found out the root. The founding father of the Ancient Korea conducted the epic flood. The mobster killed him and declared the Xia dynasty in the birth place of the Yellow River Civilization. They buried Old Korean History.
He presents a new method to study history written under ideographs and defined that History as THE MOTHER OF ALL SCIENCES AND LIBERAL ARTS. He went one step further and emphasizes that not the written records alone, but the Reasoning is the essential element in the forensic science and to study the NEA history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664130685

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Ancient History

of Korea

Mystery Unveiled. Second Edition

Lee Mosol, MD, MPH

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CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Birth of Ancient Korea (古朝鮮)

Prologue

Session 1: Study of Northeast Asian History

Mission to Find Historical Facts

How to Define History

Historian: Qualification, Responsivity, and Accountability

How to Study History Written with Ideographs

Essential Element in History is the past event.

Fallacy of Liùshū (六書)

YRVC and Size of the Original Nine Provinces

Defining Point of Time and Place in NEA

Chinese Hermeneutics (訓詁學)

Logic Is the Tool Invented to Resolve Disputes

The Birthplace of Ancient Korea (古朝鮮)

The Objective of This Essay Is Two-Fold

Session 2: How to Confirm the New Theory

Material and Method

Essential Tool of Search, Reasoning and Logic

Converting Oral History to Written One

Session 3: Discussion

First one: In the Ideographs Itself

Second one: In the Written Record

Third one: In The History Itself

Fourth one: Confucius concealed Ancient Korean History:

Evidence was revealed by his son-in-law.

Fifth one: In the Style of Writing Historiographies 春秋筆法

Sixth one: In Baal-Joseon (發朝鮮) and the Five Hegemons (五覇)

Seventh: Shanxi People Used Korean Syntax

Eighth: Yanshi Jiaxun Confirmed Few Examples

Session 4: Zhou clan invade the Birthplace of Gojoseon

Relationship of 古朝鮮, 夏, 商 and Zhou (周)

The Asadal of Ancient Korea (古朝鮮)

Shang Rong (商容) and Guan ju (關雎)

Zhou clan took over the Glory of Gojoseon Culture

Etymology of Zhou (周) Dynasty

Chapter 2: Trail of Footprints

Session 1: From Birth to the Era of Folk Lyric

Joseon, Shang, Zhou and Gija

Era of Folk Lyrics (詩)

Baal Joseon (發朝鮮) in the Early Era of Spring and Autumn

Qin Kai(秦開) Fallacy Warring States Period

The Capital during the Late Warring States Period

The Capital of Joseon in the Fāngyán (揚子方言):

WangHeum-Seong (王險城) and Wanggeom-Seong (王儉城)

Session 2: Buyeo

Dongmyeong was the King of Buyeo:

Buyeo Territory

Last capital of Buyeo was Citadel Yang-Pyeong (襄平城):

Another Buyeo Capital Jolbon in the East of Liao River:

Final Days of Buyeo

Session 3: Changhai Prefecture and Gongson Clan in Liaodong

Introduction:

The Rise and Fall of the Gongson Clan in the Liaodong

Princes Balgi of Goguryeo and the Gongson Clan

Conclusion

Session 4: Writing System of Gojoseon in Manchuria

Introduction

Discussion

Same Issue from a Different Angle

Conclusion

The Knife Money and Pyeon-du (褊頭)

Ancient Korean History Unearthed

Session 5: How Koreans Survived and Kept Tradition

Tactics and Strategy

Neo-Confucianism and Moral Hegemony

Session 6: Hong-Shan Culture (紅山文化)

Unlimited Territory in the North

The National Foundation Day (開天節)

Chapter 3: Era of Mid-Antiquity (208 BC–AD 280)

Session 1: Overview of Mid-Antiquity

Beginning of the Mid-Antiquity

The Southwestern Boundary of Old Joseon

The Gate to the Sea of Hahn

The End of Mid-Antiquity

Session 2: Clarification of a Few Names in Dispute

Gold Figurine with Engravings (金人, 金人銘)

Yiwulü Mountain (醫無閭山) in Tongdian

Other Names of Northerners

Dong Hu 東胡

Etymology of Goguryeo(高句麗):

Tribal Names of Buyeo, Sukshin, Xuantu, and Goguryeo

Session 3: Fallacy of Han Commanderies

Name and Interpretation

Etymology of Xuantu (玄菟) and Daebang

The Birthplace of Daebang Prefecture (帶方郡)

Etymology of the Three Hahn 三韓

Buyeo Descendants Spread Out through the Sea

Session 4: Buyeo Descendants Built Many Nations

Biryu Baekjae was described as Wae (倭) in the continent

Silla from Manchuria to the Korean Peninsula

The Title Reveals Their Struggle.

Session 5: Seafarers and Seafaring in the NEA

Discussion

Who Invented the Boat and Paddle?

Paddle, Jupiter (木星), and Annual Tax

Who Crossed Over the Sea of Hahn (翰海 瀚海) First?

Compass (羅針), Eastern Shore, and Silla

The Western Shore of Hahn-Hae

The southern route crossing over the Sea of Hahn

Persian Epic love story Kushnameh

Queen Himiko (倭女王卑彌呼) was the Queen of Baekjae

Presentation of Evidences

Bimiho Was Not a Proper Noun

Session 6: The End of the Han Dynasty

Reassessment of the Yellow Scarves Uprising (黃巾起)

The Yellow Scarves Uprising Armed with Folk Religion.

Hwanung(桓雄) Gold Statue to Mireuk-Bul (彌勒佛)

The Downfall of the Yellow Scarves Uprising

Buddhism in China Faced Persecutions

Etymology of the Folk Song Arirang

Etymology of Siberia

Chapter 4: Era of Late Antiquity (280–670):

Overview of the Late Antiquity

Historiographies Dealt with This Era

Clarification of a Few Names in Dispute

Goguryeo say Citadel as 幘溝漊.

The Rise and Fall of the Jin Dynasty

Cao Wei Invasion of Goguryeo in 244–245

General Jinchung (左將眞忠) of Baekjae and 阿羅槃.

How to Read the Cao Wei General 毌丘儉

Family Names of Xian Bei Tribes

Ha Liao (叚遼) vs. Dan Liao (段遼)

Etymology of Other Xian Bei Clan Family Names

Session 3: The Imna Gaya (任那加羅) in the Stele Was in China

Presentation of Evidences

Discussion

Goguryeo Stele before Gwanggaeto the Great

Imna Gara (任那加羅) and Silla Moved the Capital to Peninsula

Many Questions about the phonetics of Gaya

War at the Onjo Baekjae Capital (漢城)

King Dongseong of Baekjae Built the Foundation for Japan

Summary and Conclusion

Mystery of the Five Kings of Wei (倭王贊) Unveiled

Session 4: Balhae Gogh Clan (渤海高氏) Built Northern Qi

Balhae Go (渤海高氏) to Chen Ryu Gogh(陣留高氏) family

Session 5: Culture in the Southeast of Hahn-Hae

Ancient ritual songs and dances of the Hahn-Yae people.

Maitreya (彌勒) came from Silla Dosol lyric

Southerners made several dictionaries.

The Jade Piece (玉篇) dictionary in Korea.

Baekjae Wong-in (王仁) and Thousand Character Classic (千字文)

Session 6: Japan

Birth of a New Nation in the Far East of Hahn-Hae

The Seven-Branched Sword (七支刀)

Zen Buddhism in the NEA

The Etymology of Nihon (日本) or Nippon:

Conclusion

Epilogue

The Khitan, Jurchen (女真) and Silla People

Khitan Started to Use Phonetic Characters

Landmark Events to Mark a Different Era

In memory of my parents, who had suffered throughout their short lives.

To my wife, Jane, and to my children.

PREFACE

T his is my fourth book related to Northeast Asia (NEA) under the same t heme that I chose. The theme evolved in the process of searching for the root of ethnic Korean and trail of migration (뿌리를 찾아서) over twenty years. While searching the historical records, it was apparent that Korean scholars had very limited access to the records and couldn’t involve the essential elements that is the interpretation of the archaic ideograms.

The official Korean history was compiled by a group of Confucian scholars without mentioning the origin. Buddhist monk Ilyeon expressed the origin of the first nation, provided the source of information, and spear headed movement of Hermit historian. Their influence continued since then and through the foreseeable future. It is a result of geopolitics, because anyone living in the Korean Peninsula couldn’t come up with independent academic activities in the field of social science, history in particular.

As one political entity extended and made a huge territory, the surrounding small ones had to go along with the big one. It is geopolitics. It dictated every sector in the Korean Peninsula.

Although Marco polo and Jesuit missionaries had been in Beijing before and the Danish navigator Vitus Bering explored the Bering Strait in 1728, the NEA was out of radar screen to the westerners as shown in the world map at the College of William and Mary.

Ancient NEA was an eye-opening new world to the westerners. They accepted Chinese hermeneutics without criticism. History of NEA compiled by the Chinese scholars still remained as the final one. They didn’t realize the way ancient scriptures compiled under the elusive wordings.

The New York Times best seller and converted to the new PBS documentary 1421: When China Discovered the World rewrote global history in 2004 and is one of many examples.

There hadn’t been any dissenting voice. Worldwide sinologists still believed Geocentrism that placed the China at the center of universe. This is the lone voice presenting to the Sinophile western world from the other side of the Great Wall, which had been built to protect Hu (胡) invasion pushed up further North.

I assert that my book contains an accurate English/Spanish translation (accurate in tone, meaning, and content) of any and all foreign-language text that is included in my manuscript.

Lee Mosol

July 2020

From the Shenvalley Farm, Virginia, USA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to many people who supported my new mission, Searching for the Root, over the past ten years.

First, the time, place, resources, and current social setting make this outcome possible. Had I not been in this country, this writing wouldn’t be possible. Once again, I am grateful to the founding father of this great nation on all of earth, America. They promised the freedom of speech and left all the law of nature as the law of the land. Without any fear, I am speaking the truth that I believe in the ancient history of Northeast Asia.

Second, without the current technical advancement—namely, internet and websites such as Google, Daum, Baidu, and Yahoo—it would be impossible to get some rare old scriptures within a short period.

I deeply appreciate the program developer, owner, and director of the Chinese Text Project (http://ctext.org), Mr. Donald Sturgeon. Majority of the cited references came from his program. This essay contains lots of ideograms being used in the NEA and ancient way of pronunciations. Most of the phrase clause that needed to be quoted came from the Chinese Text Project.

Third, As the old saying goes, Gold Rules Whoever Has the Gold Makes the Rules. Money talks. Money had been influencing the scholars. I don’t want to be influenced by any. Ever since I retired ten years ago, though not enough funds for us to maintain middle-income group, I have not looking for funds and spending our own money for my own interest. I am grateful to my wife, Myeong Hyeon (金明顯), and her cousin Seon Hyeon Kim (金善賢), who helps me all the time without any reservation about the financial matter.

There are several professionals who helped and encouraged me to proceed my theme and finish this new edition.

First, I would like to name Professor Lee Seung-Chong, Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics in the Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He recognized my stance on the history of NEA and used my books within few months after published for supplementary reading to his class. He also arranged a podium for me to speak in the Yonsei University campus. I presented my new theory claiming that Baek-ik was the founding father set the capital in the Shanxi Province, and conducted epic flood control to my native place. It was out of blue to the hermit historians in Korea. One of the highly regarded sinologist and historian in Korea, Dr. Shim Baek-Gang (沈伯綱), realizes my academic stance on ancient history of NEA.

There have been several scientists who got the degree on higher education whom I define as hermit historians comparable to the traditional historians. They all stood up and raised their voices against academic fallacy. The strong movement of the hermit historians on Korean is equivalent to the French Revolution in academic sense. I respect their academic stance and courage. I would like recognize a few pertinent hermit historians among many.

Geologist Chung-Myun Lee, PhD, professor emeritus University of Utah, pointed out Japanese disinformation of Korea and origin of Japan; Yeoung-Shik Kim, PhD, in Baltimore who was raised and educated in traditional Confucian family encouraged me to pursue the difficult mission. Applied scientist Lee Jin-Woo, PhD; Mr. Investment Banker Cha Tai Hyeun; economist Kang Gae-Du, PhD; medical doctor Sung Boo-Hong; Prof. Koh Yong-Bok; and Prof. Choi Yong Woo in Seoul—they all helped my historic presentation.

Lastly, it is difficult for the publishing company to edit. I am glad that I met the right one: Xlibris. I owe a debt of gratitude and appreciation to all of them.

CHAPTER 1

Birth of Ancient Korea (古朝鮮)

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Yuncheng (運城市) is in the NE corner of small salty lake

Xiechi(解池). It was called 蒲阪, 鳴條之郊, 安邑, and so on.

It was the Capital of Gojoseon 古朝鮮Pyeongyang平壤.

Prologue

J os

eon (朝鮮) is the oldest name still in use. The official name of North Korea is Joseon. The Buddhist monk Il-Yeon (一然; 1206–1289) compiled the Samguk Yusa (三國遺事). It revealed the source of the legend as the Book of Wei (魏書) and has that the founding father Dangun Wanggeom (壇君王儉) set the capital in Pyongyang (平壤) and lived an era of a legendary sage king Yao. It was the beginning of the written history with archaic ideographs.

The Chinese history has it that the legendary Gija (箕子) went to Joseon that is Gojoseon (古朝鮮,王儉朝鮮)at the end of the Shang dynasty (商朝; c. 1046 BC), came back within few years, and met the first king Mu (周武王) of Western Zhou. A bronze vessel that King Mu had made for his compatriot was found in the Xian Valley, which is the birthplace of Yellow River Valley Civilization (YRVC) in the western part of original Nine Provinces. It is known that they made Shanhaijing to control the flood.

The name Joseon is in the Shanhaijing and Book of Changes. Guanzi of Guan Zhong (管仲; c. 720–645 BC) named the northern extra state (北州) as Ba-al Joseon (發朝鮮).

Yet the official historiographies 尚書, 春秋傳, 國語, 逸周書 did not have the name Joseon. It is apparent. Chinese historians concealed the fact that ancient Korea had emerged in the birthplace of YRVC. Korean scholars used a wrong methodology to study ancient history and failed to confirm the birthplace and legendary founding father.

By formulating a new study method based on the fact that written history began with the use of archaic logograms in the NEA, the birthplace was confirmed as in the Shanxi Province of China along the Feng River (汾水) valley. Since the birthplace of Gojoseon (古朝鮮; Dangun Joseon, Ancient Korea) was in the cradle of YRVC, the oldest scriptures and analyzing archaic logograms are the key to study ancient history of Korea. The new methodology based on a series of syllogism to study NEA history is explored in depth.

INTRODUCTION

There have been many political revolts and revisionist in the academic fields throughout history because the existing regime was out of common sense. Traditional interpretation about the Old Joseon is out of common sense.¹

The phrase 下視三危太伯可以弘益人間 should be interpreted as [by looking down the Three Highland mountains (三危) could be the place for the Great leader (太伯, Dangun) to set the capital and provide ideal government for the benefit and Devotion and welfare to the mankind]

The Korean legend has it that the leader came down to the peak of Tai-Baek Mountain (降於太伯山頂) and got married to a Yung-nyeo (熊女;융녀), literally female bear.² It is a mistranslation of the local Tungusic word Yu-Ung (戎; 有熊) as in the Carl Jung of European philosopher. Yung-nyeo is an acronym of Yu-Ung lady, meaning a lady from the west with Scythian trait commonly described as Rong by the Chinese. They also misinterpreted Tai-Baek Mountain (太伯山), literally Dangun Mountain that is the Khan Tengri Mountain in the Altaic Mountain ranges as the Myohyangsan (妙香山) in the North Korean or Baekdu Mountain (白頭山), literally White Head Mountain, in the Manchurian border. Koreans consider them as Sacred Mountains.

The Chinese mystical Yellow Emperor (黃帝) who fought against the Dong-yi leader Chiyou (蚩尤) shares the same maternal linage, Rong (戎) from the west: his name is xuān yuan (軒轅; 헌원Heon-won by Korean) and family name is Gong-son (公孫), literally descendants of the leader.³ Yet the highly regarded three commentaries on the ancient Chinese chronicle Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋) do not mentioned him or Joseon. Xuān yuan is also PLCs of Tungusic one syllable Huan (桓), which was pronounced with two syllables. Hwanung (桓雄) is the son of heavenly god Hwan-in (桓因, origin of brightness, equivalent to the God of light. 밝히다,빛, beam of light by Korean) and father of Dangun Wanggeom. Hwan (桓, 밝을 환 or 훤, Bal -Eul-Huan) is a compound ideograph derived from the 木 旦 sunrise and a tree, meaning dawn, and read as Huan or Hwan, depending upon the degree of brightness.

In the ancient times, both ideographs 戎, 桓, Jung, Hwan were pronounced with one syllable by Koreans and recorded with two syllables by the Chinese. They added tone and rhythm in Tungusic language. Many other such evidences are in the scriptures.

There are a group of historians specializing in a specific field or region. The words regional historian, specialized in a specific region of the country, is commonly used around the world, but not in Korea. They used the word 在野史學者, literally hermit historians, who are revisionists against the core academic history society (講壇史學者) for a long time. The Buddhist monk compiled the Samguk Yusa after the official history of the three kingdoms. Samguk sagi (三國史記) had appeared in 1145. This official record of Korean history was compiled by the group of scholars appointed by the king’s court. It doesn’t mention the origin of Korean people, but started only from the Three Kingdoms of Korea since the first century BC. Those two books are the oldest surviving chronicles of Korean history. The Buddhist monk Il-Yeon was the first hermit historian in Korea. Few others followed throughout the Goryeo (高麗) and Joseon Dynasty. As western Catholicism came to China through the sea route, Korean Confucian scholars met the reform movement known as Silhak (實學派) in the late seventeenth century of the Joseon Dynasty in the Korean Peninsula. They came up with few versions of Korean historiographies. The country named Korea was introduced to the western world during the Goryeo Dynasty. The phonetics of word Goryeo was recorded as Corea by the European countries and Korea in English.

Hwan dan Gogi (桓檀古記), compiled by Gye Yeon-su (桂延壽;?–1920) in 1911, is the most publicized nonofficial historiography on ancient Korean history. The title of this book is an abbreviation of 桓因and 檀君王儉, referring Monotheism and the priest who worshipped the source of light in the sky. Flaws of this text is in the title 檀君世紀 itself and the lack of references. Dangun Wanggeom should be written as should be: 壇君 as in the Samguk-Yusa. The source of Hwan dan Gogi needs to be explored.

They couldn’t accept the official version of historiography. Many scholars have attempted to find out the birthplace of Gojoseon for a long time, but failed. It is reasonable to speculate that they didn’t have the will to tackle the question or used a wrong methodology. Revisionists ought to develop a new methodology as a forensic scientist to resolve the question related to the events of time and place.

The Gojoseon emerged during the transitional period as the oral history to the written one, not in Africa or Europe, but in Northeast Asia. The essence of oral history is the language of the locals who used to live at the time and place of epic flood in the YRVC, which is known as the cradle of civilization in the NEA. There are a handful of written records that could confirm the events, time, and place of the epic flood. As seen in the name of Corea to Korea and Cathy to Kathy, local phonetics is the key to step into the playfield and take the very important role in the process of record keeping. Westerners struggled to come up with the correct spelling of foreign language. Phonetic language is easier than the romanization of archaic ideograms. A Korean linguist, while in the Harvard-Yenching Institute, had suggested the concept of local phonetics being used as the standard romanization. The same concept was adapted in Korea without considering the fact that Korean and Chinese are very different language and writing system. Hence, a good number of Koreans revolted against the official announcement (translation of ideographs to phonetic Korean language. [중국어 한글 표기법]). Since the Chinese use logograms with meanings attached, translation to the phonetic language ought to be based upon the meaning, not phonetics of the logogram being used by the locals in the Chinese capital region. For example, the logogram 倭wēi wō wǒ, 왜 Wae in Korean has been used in many ancient scriptures and interpreted as the archaic form of characters representing the current Japanese. It is a compound logogram of a person and a high position from the west with a grain on a stalk (倭; 亻 委: 우위 Wi in Korean. wěi wēi; 禾 女), which means a leader, commonly being described with the character Hahn, 韓, 汗, and the Anglicized Hahn or Khan came from the west. Semantic of the same logogram has been recorded as 高, 魏, 崔, 最, 吳, 元, and so on.⁴ So, one ideograph has many meanings and different phonetics and are often flip-flopped to conceal the facts. Family name Fan (范) and ideograph Bin (豳, 邠, 彬), as in the folk lyric Bin (豳風), are good examples.

To find out such evidences in the scriptures, all the records dealing with ancient history and culture need to be scanned under a bird’s-eye view. The golden rule for searching— No stone left unturned—couldn’t be used until it is narrowed down to a specific time and place.

Goguryeo absorbed Old Joseon in Manchuria

Though Qin Shi Huang unified feudal states in 221 BC, his sudden death in 210 BC bought political turmoil. Xiongnu killed the Donghu King in 208 BC. They were Gojoseon people. Chancellor Yi-Si(李斯) engraved the northerners as the Great Xia (大夏). Chen Shou recorded as King Bi (朝鮮王否) of Joseon. Emperor Wu of Han defeated Old Joseon in Manchuria in 108 BC. Chen Shou (陳壽 233–297) applied an unusual name called gǔ dōu (骨都), literally Skull Capital, in the Records of the Three Kingdoms.⁵ It could be interpreted as semantics as skull or one of PLCs of gǔ, meaning old. The Book of Sui (隋書) and Tongdian (通典) described the same place as the 烏骨城, literally Citadel of Crow Bone.⁶ The gǔ dōu (骨都) is the 訖升骨城 in the Samguk Yusa.⁷ It is clear. The ancestor of King Ugeo was the Wuhuan(烏桓, 烏丸, 烏亘) people who settled in the southwestern part of Manchuria and faced massive atrocity. The phrase 烏骨城 is an abbreviated noun meaning the Citadel of Wuhuan Skeleton. His son Jun (準) ran away from the Tianjin port through the sea and settled in the Mahan.⁸ Though Goguryeo absorbed Old Joseon, their culture remained in Manchuria. Old Joseon people spread out to the sea and to the further north inland of Russian Far East.

Descendants of Old Joseon Built Khitan Empire

The name Skull Capital is the tip of iceberg: Emperor Wu of Han (漢武帝;130–87 BC) allowed massive killing. Old Joseon people had to run away, as written in the Book of Han 朝鮮在海中. 居北方胡之域, literally Joseon in the sea, Hu (東胡) lived in the north.⁹ Chen Shou made another elusive sentence describing the Joseon refugees left from the Tianjin harbor (天津; 帶方; 滄海之郡) into the sea.¹⁰ He meant the refugees were spread out into the three corners, 三韓, of the Hahn-Hae (汗海, 翰海, 瀚海); that is, the eastern shore of China, northern shore of Liaodong Bay in Manchuria, and western shore of the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese archipelago. Later, historians interpreted them with different ideographs, three places as three kinds of Hahns, and exclusively applied it to the Korean Peninsula as the land of the Three Hahns.¹¹ The descendants of Old Joseon had left their old custom in the new places as they settled. One good example is the totem poles scattered all over the NEA, Russian Far East, and the west coast of the North America.

Khitan has gone. Mongolians do not use classic ideographs. Koreans are the only descendants that remain in the NEA, carry on the name Joseon, old custom, and the language. It is fiducial duty for the Koreans to reconstruct the forgotten history of NEA. Manchuria is goldmine for every field in academics. Korean ought to step in and lead the group of scholars to explore this unknown territory.

Session 1: Study of Northeast Asian History

Mission to Find Historical Facts

It is a long journey for historians to discover the neglected mythical name and the place of events taken place. The first objective is to get the whole picture without missing any evidences. The investigator should expand panoramic view to scan the overall picture, approach the target, and draw multidimensional moving picture for analysis. In conceptual sense, it ought to include the domain of philosophy, lexicology, and epistemology of history.

Fact-finding mission has two prongs: The most common and easy way is the visible matters. The other is nonvisible concept. Ancient history is nonvisible, but visible facts are embedded