The History is an iceberg.

The things we can see from the ship, the details we know and the documentation or proof

that we have to back them up are actually just one small portion of a much larger picture.

Beneath the waves of time hides an entire realm of information that we have yet to uncover.

That doesn't mean that each new generation of historian rewrites history.

It simply means that the more we dig and the deeper we go, the more pieces we have to

work with.

And in the end, that makes for a much more comprehensive picture.

Might it change the things we thought were true?

Certainly.

But it also gets us closer to the real story.

Take the story of our own species, the Homo sapiens.

Back in the 1950s, scientists believed that our ancestors emerged around 200,000 years

ago.

And when a skull was unearthed back in 1961 inside a mine in Marrakesh, a skull that

dated to about 40,000 years ago, the theories seemed to be confirmed.

And for half a century, that was the case.

Then just a few years ago, a new scientist decided to return to that same mine and dig in

the layer beneath where the skull was found.

Soon enough, the remains of five new skeletons were discovered, also Homo sapiens, along with

a set of stone tools.

But when those tools were dated, the results repainted the entire picture.

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