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idcidcidc666420 t1_ir3r3bu wrote

on top of that a lot are hoaxes or of otherwise questionable origin. quite a bit of what was once thought certain is not and there are a lot more hoaxes that haven't been found. there's a surprising amount of possible unknowns in our history- things that we think of as certain

https://www.unz.com/article/how-fake-is-roman-antiquity/#v=onepage&q=roman%20concrete%20harena%20fossicia&f=false

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LesterKingOfAnts t1_ir5fbkf wrote

That's interesting. I had never given too much thought about how hoaxes over the centuries could become thought of as "real history".

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