when it comes to physical or textual evidence of the existence and lives of people,I tend to listen to scholars and archaeologists rather than religious groups. Religious groups, on the whole, don't seem particularly interested in convincing anyone except their own members.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag,
Mon 17 Oct 2011, 16:41,
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i know what you mean
Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet,
Mon 17 Oct 2011, 16:42,
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Alas, archaelogy is very bad at determining whether particular people livedunless they were extremely powerful. It's extremely good at putting things in a proper context, though, and revealing numerous biases and inaccuracies in the written record. (Dark age history is brilliant for that...)
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boris the spider,
Mon 17 Oct 2011, 16:44,
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