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The Differences Between Humankind and the Past
The difference between what humankind knew about the world of the past from the time of the American Revolution in the 1770s to the 1900 era is night and day. Even with all that was lost from the 1700s to the late 1800s with guys like Belzoni doing the Dan Carlin equivalent of taking backhose and tractors to the Valley of the Kings, you can't help but notice how much progress was made. By the time Howard Carter opened up King Tutankhamen's tomb,. you see what looks much more like modern archeological sorts of approaches. even broken shards of pottery are important to the modern archeologist. And once you hit the contemporary era, you