The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger.
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly...
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Having pointed this out it's ony fair to say that civilization in the area now known as Egypt also predates what we claim to know. I've said this a time or two since the IC, but to YT likes to put their own spin on shit because they don't have an explanation for it. For example: The original translation of the glyphs describing the Sphinx states that Kahfre
discovered the Sphinx during an excavation of the area, this was later changed to him having it built. Its my belief that the change was necessary to stave off the obvious question "if he didn't build it, who did?" because that would indicate there was a much older civilization that we don't have a clue about. I've read shit and watched documentaries on it (again, in the early 90's back when TLC was "The Learning Channel") and there's speculation that the Sphinx and the surrounding structures are over 100,000 years old. This places humanity as far older than we think and, once again, creates questions we simply don't have answers for.