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CLASSIC: Did Sheldon Gosline Discover a Lost Civilization?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Dragon Bones - The Origin of Chinese Writing

In 18 99, a scholar was getting these bones. These bones also had scratches on them, right? A scholar found these bones either as getting it as a prescription for some kind of treatment, or as buying them from an antique stealer. This person realized that those are early forms of chinese characters on these bones. And they figured out what people were using the bones for. They were using them to tell the future. So they would hear s what we thing happened, they would throw the bone in the fire, and then they would write down what they saw as a prediction. It reinforced the belief that chinese civilization began there at the yellow river,. But it didn't match with

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