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Read this korrent: Assyriology has a built-in assumption that the tablets we have are roughly all there ever was, and it is absurd.
Assyriology has a built-in assumption that the tablets we have are roughly all there ever was, and it is absurd.
Last stated 9 months ago
12 Dec 2025
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The archaeological record of early writing is misleading, because people across the Middle East were sending each other messages long before the Sumerians. — tap to centre the map on it
The archaeological record of early writing is misleading, because people across the Middle East were sending each other messages long before the Sumerians.
Last stated 9 months ago
12 Dec 2025
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A civilization that advanced and that large would have left something behind, and archaeologists find fish scales. — tap to centre the map on it
A civilization that advanced and that large would have left something behind, and archaeologists find fish scales.
Last stated 2 years ago
30 Sept 2024
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Ed Barnhart — holds since 2024-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Our picture of the Sumerians is skewed by the accident of what was dug up, and the people working with skewed material do not realise how skewed it is. — tap to centre the map on it
Our picture of the Sumerians is skewed by the accident of what was dug up, and the people working with skewed material do not realise how skewed it is.
Last stated 9 months ago
12 Dec 2025
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The stock of useful scientific knowledge is bounded rather than endless. — tap to centre the map on it
The stock of useful scientific knowledge is bounded rather than endless.
Last stated 6 years ago
20 Jun 2020
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José Luis Ricón — holds since 2020-06-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The people of the ancient world were not less advanced than we are; they were probably indistinguishable from us. — tap to centre the map on it
The people of the ancient world were not less advanced than we are; they were probably indistinguishable from us.
Last stated 9 months ago
12 Dec 2025
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Graham Hancock's research is good; his conclusion that one lost civilization seeded all the others is not. — tap to centre the map on it
Graham Hancock's research is good; his conclusion that one lost civilization seeded all the others is not.
Last stated 2 years ago
30 Sept 2024
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Ed Barnhart — holds since 2024-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Inca stones were not fitted by patient pecking with hammer stones; they were fused with acid. — tap to centre the map on it
The Inca stones were not fitted by patient pecking with hammer stones; they were fused with acid.
Last stated 2 years ago
30 Sept 2024
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Ed Barnhart — holds since 2024-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Babylonians did not destroy Ashurbanipal's library; they carted it home, and what is left at Nineveh is the leftovers. — tap to centre the map on it
The Babylonians did not destroy Ashurbanipal's library; they carted it home, and what is left at Nineveh is the leftovers.
Last stated 9 months ago
12 Dec 2025
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Irving Finkel — holds since 2025-12-12 — tap for who they are
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