What Really Happened In The Past?
It is a broad, but fascinating topic for our round table this time. In this hectic time of change, with major new conspiracies regularly being unearthed, we should be reminded of, and appreciate, those who tried to preserve an accurate telling of past events in the face of cover-ups, white-washes, propaganda and blatant ignorance.
Many things in history did not happen as we are told in state education and main stream sources. What example do you have? Which topic do you find most intriguing?
Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion and voted and to u/Gottmituns for the winning suggestion.
Well if it’s Herodotus, he is “The Father of History” so pretty much everyone who followed him could fact check whether or not the pyramids existed.
That leaves about 2400 years for someone to figure out the bluff before the British might have built the pyramids.
Also Napoleon, who was at war with England at the time, had captured Egypt in the 1790s, which is where we got the Rosetta Stone from. Napoleon would have no motivation to cover up for a British plan to build pyramids. We have sketches and paintings of the Sphinx and Great pyramid, and architectural data from Napoleons engineers regarding the pyramids.
There is A LOT of holes to plug with the theory the British built the pyramids. So I think it’s an interesting concept, but unless there is something more than theory supporting it, we just have to assume they existed before British occupation.
Are you aware that from the Classical period in Greece to the mid 20th century, literacy in Greek was required at pretty much every single college?
I am willing to bet any sum of money that the reason you cannot is simply for lack of actual research practices like using a bibliography.
Most likely, you "can't find any" based on a cursory google search in english.
A simple visit to wikipedia shows that both ancient papyrii as well as several translations into english from medieval texts from the mid 1800's exist and their reference numbers are easily linked.
Here is the 1849 translation which is the earliest I found simply by visiting wikipedia
If you are curious, the reason you won't likely find older English translations is simply that before that time, most European scholars learned both Greek and Latin and read the texts in these languages, not bothering to translate such books into lingua vulgaris for the masses.
(There was a bit of controversy mid-century when Harvard decided to drop Greek fluency as a requirement to enroll, just to put that in perspective. Before the GI bill in particular, any college educated person was expected to be able read both Greek and Latin. It is not even 100 years since English became the dominant language of academia as opposed to Greek serving for roughly the last 2500 years.)
Here is a bunch of sketches that pre-date British occupation
And Here is Herodotus’s “Account of Egypt”