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Milo Rossi, aka Miniminuteman, a YouTuber with an archaeology degree did a multi-part deep dive into exactly all of the things Graham Hancock got wrong or just plain lied about and I highly recommend it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Recommendation #2 here. The deep dive was very well made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

just because we can’t currently prove the presence of such a civilisation, doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.

What kind of utterly moronic argument is that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The kind that will keep a religion going for centuries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be fair (/s), we haven’t dug up the whole Sahara yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That's why they're planting all those trees! Not to reclaim the land from the desert but to hide the TRUTH!!!! /S

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

True, but there's also absolutely no reason to act like it did exist. Russell's Teapot and all.