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Nothing here is invented. Every chapter draws on established archaeological and historical scholarship rather than on a single retelling of someone else's summary.

History doesn't hold still

A date that looked solid ten years ago can move after a new excavation or a better isotope reading, and this site tries to keep up rather than freeze the picture at launch. Where specialists disagree — and in prehistory, they often do — that disagreement is part of the text, not smoothed over for the sake of a tidier sentence.

Corrections are welcome

If something here doesn't match the current consensus in a field, or a specific claim looks wrong, that is genuinely useful to know. See the contact page to flag it.

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