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On Tue, 12 May 2026 10:44:36 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> *Fascinating* how much of history was already well underway before we'd
> even started writing stuff down. Makes you wonder what we'd learn if we
> could only *know* what happened vs. guessing from abandoned villages &
> fragments of material culture; how many stories are lost to the ages?

When I was a kid I wondered why history started in the Near East, 
progressed through the Greeks and Romans before getting the Northern 
Europe. Not being a Babylonian, Greek, or Roman I thought a lot was 
missing about my personal ancestors.