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napoleongold t1_iqpqvhe wrote

I'm actually surprised it only goes back 1500 years. I thought we had as accurate records going back to Egyptian 4k bce? Maybe they are working on that next?

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zoinkability t1_iqyarwv wrote

The article says that for this analysis they needed sufficient detail to give them location, date, and time of day within some margin of error. Guessing older ones don’t have the detail they need, or alternately that this analysis has been done for other time periods but not this one.

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