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02 setembro 2016
Modern scholarship dates the Trojan War to sometime between 1280...
Modern scholarship dates the Trojan War to sometime between 1280 and 1184 BCE. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, epic poems that tell of what happened during the war and immediately afterwards, were first written down between 750 and 700 BCE. The traditional date for the founding of Rome was 753 BCE. But Ovid wrote a lovely nation-glorifying myth saying Aeneas, prince and refugee of the Trojan War, founded Rome. Unless one guy lived four hundred plus years, Ovid seriously miscalculated.
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Homo Sapiens Spread To China Before Europe, Recent Find Says
The discovery of 47 teeth, from homo sapiens, in a cave in Southern China changes humanity’s timeline. You see, they date to 30,000 years before homo sapiens entered Europe. China is much farther from our species’ homeland in Africa than Europe. This suggests that our species were kept out of Europe and Northern Asia by Neanderthals and Denisovians and other archaic hominins for a time. (Guesses are currently around 40,000 years.) But we expanded around them, to central and east Asia. When the archaic hominin species collapsed, homo sapiens moved into what had been their areas.
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