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Originally Posted by htismaqe
There's definitely something to the lost civilization theories. Think about it this way - we thought Homer's Troy was a mythical place for what, 3 millennia before archaeologists dug up the real city?
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It's funny how often we take a single source as 'fact' (for instance, Herodotus) and then dismiss that same source if/when he starts talking about events we're predisposed to dismiss.
So much of what we claim to know about the Persian empire, for instance, comes from one or two guys and word of mouth. And it becomes unassailable truth.