It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...

Historians often take creative liberties when setting the scene, but at what point does it become misleading?

A miraculous hail  of rocks in 73 BC, from the Augsburg Book of Miracles, German,  16th century.
A miraculous hail of rocks in 73 BC, from the Augsburg Book of Miracles, German, 16th century. Alamy.

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