However,  according to Rappler, there is no historical proof that a royal family or a Tallan family ruled over a kingdom called Maharlika during pre-colonial Philippines. Rappler has cited Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertsons’ 55-volume book. The said traditional media then found that the words “Tallano” and “Maharlika” were not mentioned in the Blair and Robertson  collection of Philippine history documents  that covered the years 1943 all the way to 1898. Rappler also cited William Henry Scott’s “Looking for the Prehispanic Filipino” which was published in 1992 and discussed about the pre-colonial Filipinos and how the Spaniards first thought datus were kings but later on realized that these datus did not have power over other kingdoms or other datus within the country. Even the Marcos-approved history book titled “Tadhana: The History of the Filipino People” was reported by Rappler for saying that by the time Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived in the Philippines, groups in the country were not unified. The same report also mentioned that none of the Supreme Court website, the LawPhil website, or the Chan Robles Virtual Law Library do not provide any decisions from before 1949 that involve both the families of Tallano and Marcos. Another report from Rappler also argued that it is impossible for anyone to own a million tons of gold as World Gold Council, a market development organization for the gold industry said that only an estimated 190,040 metric tons of gold has ever been mined worldwide. This is equivalent to only 209,483.24 US tons. This report also showed that according to the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) website, there are only 187,000 metric tons (or 206,132.21 US tons) of gold that have been historically produced and there are only 57,00 metric tons (or 6,831.75 US tons) of underground reserves of gold. Hence, the total amount of discovered gold is merely 244,000 metric tons or 268,936.96 US tons.