Re:Ten Thousand Years
by HarryHirsch on Saturday July 26, 2014 @10:29PM
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I feel like we'll have ways of knowing what the site contains forever.
Consider Herodot's account (he lived in the 5th Century BC) about the circumnavigation of the African continent by a Phoenician expedition under Pharao Necho II, about 150 years earlier. The fleet set out in the Red Sea and returned three years later through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Herodot, who clearly had access to the original records, which have since been lost, like so much of Classical material, says that as they rounded the continent the sailors had the Sun to their right, but he, Herodot, cannot believe this because everyone knows that at noon the Sun is in the South. A more complete account of the matter is here: http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/hist01.htm
Knowledge is fragile, much more fragile than I like.
Consider Herodot's account (he lived in the 5th Century BC) about the circumnavigation of the African continent by a Phoenician expedition under Pharao Necho II, about 150 years earlier. The fleet set out in the Red Sea and returned three years later through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Herodot, who clearly had access to the original records, which have since been lost, like so much of Classical material, says that as they rounded the continent the sailors had the Sun to their right, but he, Herodot, cannot believe this because everyone knows that at noon the Sun is in the South. A more complete account of the matter is here: http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/hist01.htm
Knowledge is fragile, much more fragile than I like.