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It’s crazy that different ancient peoples, all over the globe, built the same shaped structures, without machinery or whatever and they perfectly align with the stars and stuff.
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Fascinating bc it’s unclear why they were on this. Multiple cultures were doing this. What did they know
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my archaeology prof has talked about it in class, mostly because it reinforces very colonial ideas that certain populations could not have built these massive structures because they ‘weren’t advanced enough’ in the eyes of white europeans. graham hancock is part of a group of pseudoarchaeologists known as ‘new agers’ who believe that there was a lost civilization that was incredibly advanced, and he (and other new age believers) have a nasty habit of ignoring certain evidence and only investigating things that support their viewpoint. this isn’t a new thing, many archaeologists and anthropologists have experienced these people for many years (there’s a great new yorker article that i’ve linked about the sphinx that talks about them), but it’s dangerous to fully believe what people like that say. it’s not based on all the facts and sometimes pushes very anti-indigenous viewpoints.
Feb 7, 2025
i read only one book about it, but i guess in a broader sense i find the history of time keeping and astronomy/logy(it was practically the same during most of history) really interesting. thinking about a time before light pollution, being able to see the milky way with the naked eye. etc.
one of my profs said that history is the story we tell ourselves about the past, and that the past (happened but) does not exist. that blew my mind a bit.
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