
EP26 Dig This!
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
The Great Zimbabwe
The racism and ethnocentrism is so deep that when they were first discovered, the white archaeologists who discovered them in the 1800s could not bring themselves to attribute their building to the black Africans. Daniele: The archaeology shows that for example, Sub-Saharan Africa had great civilizations but was taboo at the time of its discovery. They didn't go to the site. And they also were not the original people there because the East people had only moved in there about 50 years beforehand.
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