Artists were also the storytellers of the time. To go against the church was a crime wasn't it? idk but I do know that Europe was not a safe place for people who made light of anything that didn't align with Christian "fact". It's why so many things have to fit into the bible timeline. Like the age of the pyramids etc. The church owned, and in lots of ways still owns archaeology. The study of "us" is the most corrupt science. Modern archaeology started in Europe where you weren't allowed to go against the church. It meant being cast from society or worse.
So naturally, according to science, the very foundation of what we know of as being our earliest history is tainted with Christian/Jew/Abrahamic influence.
What do you think happened the first time some conquistadors said something about the stonemason work in Peru? When they went back to Spain and said that there was construction there that was more advanced than what was in Europe at the time, and that the locals had oral tradition that stated the work "came from people before us", it probably didn't go well for them. If they stuck to their story about what they saw, and didn't concede to threats, they were dealt with. So naturally things flying in the air, and the people who talked about it, were probably not very accepted.