The trouble with history is that it's only as good as the people who write it down. And up until relatively recently, no one was writing anything down because written languages didn't exist. And even after written languages became a thing, well, you couldn't really trust those ancient historians to avoid the temptation of embellishment and outright fabrication. After all, it's not like they had Politifact to keep them all in line or anything. So it makes sense that a lot of ancient history is...
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The trouble with history is that it's only as good as the people who write it down. And up until relatively recently, no one was writing anything down because written languages didn't exist. And even after written languages became a thing, well, you couldn't really trust those ancient historians to avoid the temptation of embellishment and outright fabrication...
Archaeologists can spend months sifting through ridiculously small patches of dirt, meticulously recording everything they find from size, shape, and color to precise position in the ground. Months of back-breaking work might turn up some rare finds, or it might turn up absolutely nothing — so just imagine how annoyed archaeologists probably get when...
From the Sword in the Stone to ancient Egyptian airplanes, strange and mysterious artifacts summon people to put away their iPhones, don a fedora, snap a bullwhip, and get their faces melted. Some artifacts are intoxicating through their storytelling or by the puzzles they present. Basic questions such as who made an item, why they made it, and...
If all the world's still-hidden archaeological sites were revealed to us right now, they still wouldn't tell us everything there is to know about human history. We'd need a time machine for that. The only thing those still-hidden sites could do for us is provide tantalizing clues about what life was like before people started writing everything down...
The trouble with history is that pretty much everything that happened before the 20th century had to be written down, and people are terrible eyewitnesses. We may never really know what happened even during very well-documented historical events like The Alamo or the Battle of Bosworth because historians often embellished details, recorded fiction as fact...
