What are some things in ancient historical/religious/mythological texts that historians assumed to be made up, that later turned out to be true?
What are some things in ancient historical/religious/mythological texts that historians assumed to be made up...
Chase James
Benjamin Long
The Great Flood. It was assumed to be one of those "completely made up as a legend" stories, but then archaeologists found proof of widespread flooding in Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago. Sure, it's not exactly a world-ending flood that covered all the earth, but it shows that it did have basis in fact.
Christopher Davis
For what its worth the same myth is in a lotta native american mythologies too. My amateur theory is it could be a memory of ancient climate change but idk
Landon Richardson
The city of troy
Matthew Ramirez
Lots of different animals species, depending on what era these historians came from.
Camden Thompson
>there are floods every year across the Earth
>it's as common as wind and snow
>PROOF OF A SUPERNATURAL DELUGE YOU GUISE
Crucify yourselves citizens
Hunter Fisher
I think it's funny that Alex is so concerned about pollution yet constantly shills for a guy who wants to completely eliminate the EPA.
Logan Williams
It's funny that the EPA has been around for 46 years and we still have pollution.......................
Ian Collins
This guys account of the Amazon
en.wikipedia.org
Hunter Nguyen
>attaining lower pollution levels is an unrealistic, idealized alternative
Well then we don't need the EPA in either case. Either they are grossly incompetent and a massive money sink or their efforts are a waste of time anyhow.
Checkmate
Chase Wright
He doesnt believe in global warming though.
Wyatt Turner
I just had this conversation in another thread.
Floods are the most lethal and destructive natural disasters. They happen all the time and kill large numbers of people.
Josiah Phillips
It's a Chinese conspiracy to get america to get on alternative energy, so the chinks get all the monopoly on earths energy. Trump is correct.
Noah Sanders
But how do hillarys emails fit into this
Cooper Green
No trump supporter actually cared about her emails. We just didn't like her.
Henry Torres
>tfw they REALLY are turning the frogs gay
Jose Nelson
Atlantis
Luis Cooper
A lot of those are the result of diffusion from missionaries. It's pretty obvious because of how many of them are almost verbatim the biblical account. Native American mythology
was never written down, and it wasn't like people were opposed to adopting new stories.
In general, people make too much of the whole "every culture has a flood story" thing. Yes, lots of them do (lots, not all; people who make that argument always overstate this), but most people also live in places where flooding is common or where climate change had a serious effect on the environment at some point. And Christian missionaries have been spreading the story to different groups for a seriously long time.
Austin Gomez
Don't most historians think Gilgamesh was likely a real person now?
Liam Walker
The whole civilization talked about in the Iliad, really. Remember, they found Mycenae too.
Jeremiah Ward
>It's funny that the EPA has been around for 46 years and we still have pollution.......................
You have no idea just how bad it used to be.
Colton Walker
The Hittites and their use of iron pre-dating that if the Romans.
Ryder Perry
>PROOF OF A SUPERNATURAL DELUGE YOU GUISE
but neither of them claimed this and in fact suggested they didn't believe that at all
retard
Kayden Jenkins
Source?
Cooper Bell
Hittites.
Atheists used to think Hittites were just a biblical myth.
Then archeologists actually found remains of Hittite civilization.
Brody Rivera
>it's funny we've had doctors for thousands of years but we still die
Levi Stewart
>They happen all the time and kill large numbers of people.
And your point is what? When your entire "culture" compromises a few thousand individuals, even a small flood that wipes out a few hundred is pretty big. Now translate that over to our days, floods barely kill a couple hundred people worldwide a year.
Michael Nguyen
But china is leading the world right now in the move towards renewable energy....