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How Much Did the Ancients Know?
by Brent Peterson
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The amazement at how a German monk knew what South America looked like before any European supposedly had been there isn’t well placed when such aspects were common of maps made at the time. We know that this knowledge came from maps that were very old when mapmakers compiled the information in the 15th to 17th centuries. There really isn’t any mystery to the creation of the maps themselves. The mystery is what is our real past? If we could ask these mapmakers of five centuries ago, they could not answer us. They were just the last in a long line of people who copied and preserved very ancient knowledge. Whatever our real history is, I know it isn’t the neat and tidy story we were taught in school.
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The hell with the ancients, how much do we really KNOW?
It seems that each week, we “uncover” more. More data, more information, more knowledge that indicates what we think we know is either mistaken, wrong, or just flat out wacky.
Just in the last few months, personally, I have read “Day of Deceit” that indicts FDR for inducing Pearl Harbor (If not actually, preventing its detection and mitigation). I read an article about another Kennedy assassination attempt prior to Dallas. And, see a flow of items that cast doubt about what was taught in “history”.
Certainly, maybe Mark Twain was righter than he knew. About what we think we know hurting us.
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