dude, that up there is one of the most contradictory statements i have read on here.
There is more than one school of thought on understanding history, only two of them (reformist/revisionist & orthodox) takes the understanding of history as in state of absolute fact or myth. Nothing is that simple and its really ignorant to view it in that way, which is why most academics don't adhere to either anymore.
The posts on the past page are history now, are they myth? You can read them as they were written.
If you want to talk about ancient history then you have
more of a point. Given the role of carbon dating etc. etc. understanding ancient history is a lot easier.