An illustrated essay on The Alternative History of the World
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Recent years have seen a radical questioning of the history of humankind as it was taught us at school. Our view of the past is naturally coloured by our present attitudes, and throughout the twentieth century the history of humankind's origins has tended to be materialistic and commonsensical with an underlying belief in steady progress towards our present, scientific zenith. But we live an age of archeological discovery, unearthing artifacts that tend to overturn the accepted view. And as the millennium approaches and a new age dawns, many influential books are being written which propose that history is more mysterious, more magical, and furthermore that the true causes behind events and even entire epochs have been hidden from us by 'official' historians, perhaps in the belief that it is better for us not to know the truth.
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