Humans inhabit the Americas |
About 21,000 YBP (years before the present), at the height of the last ice age, when Beringia was at its largest size, due to lower sea levels |
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Still-present ice sheets built up in Greenland & Antarctica |
Hundreds of thousands of years, as evidenced by ice core samples |
Shows that these glaciers could not have been submerged in the deep sea for months, as the Noah-ark-flood story implies |
Discovery of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt
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1799
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Enabled knowledge of the bronze-age history of Egypt & "Canaan" (Palestine) to be re-discovered
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