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Humans Existed 200,000 Years. Then Five Civilisations Appeared
· 2 h 58 min
Episode Humans Existed 200,000 Years. Then Five Civilisations Appeared
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Five thousand years ago, in five different places on Earth — separated by thousands of miles, speaking different languages, worshipping different gods — something crystallised that had never existed before. Cities. Writing. Organised religion. Monumental architecture. Complex states. All at approximately the same time. In this episode, we sit with one of the most genuinely puzzling facts in the whole of human history. Not puzzling in a mysterious sense. Puzzling in the precise scientific sense: here is a pattern in the data that the existing explanations do not fully account for. Why did every advanced civilisation on Earth appear within the same narrow window? And what does the answer tell us about how old the human story really is? Settle in, get comfortable, and drift off while we explore the mysteries of the oldest written worlds.
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