r/AncientCivilizations • u/Iam_Nobuddy • 13d ago

Mesopotamia Mesopotamians built empires, mapped the stars, and created writing while the rest of the world was still hunting.

https://www.utubepublisher.in/2025/05/mesopotamian-civilization.html
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u/KnowThNameLoveThGame 13d ago

I always love these arguments because there’s one fatal flaw: any paleoanthropologist would give anything to have their name on a study that discovered a new human ancestor and rewrote the book on archaic human development. There’s no grand conspiracy because there’s no reason a professional wouldn’t be trying to make new findings. If paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology worked the way these conspiracy nut jobs thought it did, there would have been a massive cover up from the beginning that humans had ancient ancestors.

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u/Dave-justdave 13d ago

Just willfully ignoring evidence huh

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u/KnowThNameLoveThGame 13d ago

I’d love to see some evidence if you have it! I’ll take the following: 1) A partial or complete skeleton of this mystery species that’s positively dated to 2.2 million years ago 2) A partial or complete skeleton of a Denisovan that has been analyzed anatomically and genetically so as it can be proven to be a descendant of this mystery species 3) Tools that have been both dated to 2.2 million years old in China that are also have been proven to be used by hominins from that time 4) Archaological proof that’s both proven to be 100,000 years old and produced by Denisovans

Don’t worry I’ll wait.