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peoplingthepast.com | ||
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www.palladiummag.com
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| | | | | [AI summary] The article explores the profound implications of recent archaeological discoveries, particularly the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, on our understanding of human civilization's origins. It highlights how these findings challenge long-held theories about the timeline of agriculture, monumental construction, and the development of complex societies. The text also discusses the political and cultural significance of these discoveries, noting how different nations and ideologies may leverage ancient history for national prestige or ideological purposes. Additionally, the article touches on the role of archaeology in shaping historical narratives and the potential for redefining our understanding of human progress. It emphasizes the importa... | |
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roseannechambers.com
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| | | | | Ancient people collected, transported, and shaped enormous rocks-known as monoliths-for thousands of years. They dealt with impressive sizes and weights when they carved gigantic statues and shaped stone blocks for pyramids, temples, and other monumental structures. The availability of different rocks, and where people quarried the chosen types, fascinates me. (Most geologists are fond of | |
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aeon.co
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| | | | | A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet's past and its future | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | Alice Roberts, Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, (Simon and Schuster, 2025), 413 pp. There is no shortage of excellent books on both the end of the Roman Empire and on the formation of Christendom. Most are by expert historians, many are recent and several are highly accessible works aimed at the general reader. So it may be wondered why another such book has been released and why a non-historian - a biologist -... Read More Read More | ||
