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Like Every single fucking time, and it's not only about Ancient Greeks (lemmy.nz)
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[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 3 points 1 week ago

Not to mention, not all of those myths turn out to be entirely mythic. We found the minoans and what is likely ancient troy by listening to the stories and looking where they told us to look.