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Re:Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (1985) by narrator on Saturday April 27, 2019 @02:38PM (#19766951)
This really makes me wonder why controlling the understanding of anything older than 3000 years ago is such a big deal. Isn't there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing?

It might be tied to the ancient notions of lineage that have somehow persisted into the modern era and for bettet or fot worse link the ancient with the modern.

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Re:Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (1985) by freeflight on Saturday April 27, 2019 @04:21PM (#19767418)
It's to manufacture legitimization for all kinds of claims.

One of the most notorious examples for this is probably Israel [0].

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/the-twisted-logic-of-the...

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Re:Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (1985) by mirimir on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:02PM (#19769052)
For an interesting take on the ancient history of conflict among Semitic tribes, I recommend Matthew Woodring Stover's Jericho Moon. The ancient Hebrews come across a lot like marauding Bedouin tribes.
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Re:Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (1985) by wholinator2 on Saturday April 27, 2019 @02:44PM (#19766976)
Do you have sources or evidence for any of those claims?
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