To control the future, one must control the past, and in the modern age, this is no longer achieved through brute censorship, but through the curated release of allegedly ancient texts. Institutions like Oxford and the Israel Antiquities Authority maintain vast troves of uncatalogued papyri and scroll fragments, which they claim are remnants of lost civilizations. Because these archives are incomplete, unverifiable, and accessible only to vetted insiders, they offer a renewable source of narrative authority. At any time, a new “discovery” can be announced: a gospel, a prophecy, a clarification of doctrine - always framed as ancient, yet suspiciously relevant to contemporary politics or theology. This system functions like a time-release myth engine. The ancient past is kept in flux, malleable, unfinished. It is a sandbox for modern ideological updates. By framing each release as a scholarly breakthrough rather than a creative act, institutions maintain both credibility and control. The result is an invisible form of narrative governance: history is not revised, but strategically "uncovered", allowing for endless retroactive justification of present agendas. What appears as archaeology is often closer to theology in disguise, or more precisely: publishing with divine branding.