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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Hidden History

I record a lot of shows off The Science Channel. It's backup for when there's nothing on TV. Lately, I watched What the Ancients Knew.

There was a lot of stuff that happened before history. That is, history is what was recorded, so before they could record, we have pre-history. Writing was a huge invention.

But that got me thinking...

What if the ancients did have some way of writing/recording stuff, but at some point they destroyed it all? What if they decided to hide something from us future humans and the only way to do that was to get rid of all trace of their accomplishments?
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3 comments:

  1. Charity BradfordSeptember 27, 2012 at 8:17 AM

    Ooo, I love what if questions like this!

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  2. Michael Offutt, Phantom ReaderSeptember 27, 2012 at 8:41 AM

    Maybe a lot of what was written was destroyed in the fire that burned the Library of Alexandria to the ground. Many consider that the greatest crime ever committed in all the world's history.

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  3. J E FritzSeptember 27, 2012 at 6:52 PM

    I'm sure there's a lot of stuff they destroyed, either because they couldn't preserve it or because they didn't want anyone else to have it. I wonder what they hid from us...

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