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Ed Barnhart: belief

30 Sept 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

“I am almost certain that the Maya would just gut laugh at what I think I know what they were.”

— Ed Barnhart

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Speaker
Ed Barnhart
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belief
Recorded
30 Sept 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah. And would they be able to reconstruct the important empires, the powerful empires, and the warring empires? For that matter, have me and my colleagues done that at all? I am almost certain that the Maya would just gut laugh at what I think I know what they were. I wonder, do you ever think about what we just as a human civilization are wrong about the most? Like mainstream archaeology. Just like a suspicion. What could we get completely wrong? Well, one way to get something wrong is totally lost civilization. An obviously gigantic civilization that was there along with the Maya or something like this in the 10,000 years ago.…

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