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This is why smug and archeology never go together. Literally I never bought Graham Hancock until smug archeologists admitted to ignoring evidence. Like wtf no shit he believes civilization is way older than we say because we are sitting on evidence waiting for it to be smug-worthy wtf!
Ok but Hancock is a fucking clown who is extremely wrong
Not the point. It's that 99.99% of evidence is lost by time and the 0.01% that survives are precious insights not concrete evidence and so a rebuttal is as weak as a claim. If you get your funding from describing something that has no hope of being described you circlejerk it so you can study what you want. Same with any science in this world. And straight up Egyptology is corrupt geopolitics.