Atlantis Puzzle: "When Myth Becomes History" | Next Level Soul #shorts

Añadido: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Today, archaeologists can [music] carbon date artifacts and sequence DNA with computers.

[00:00:06]Yet, the picture of the deep past that emerges is often frustratingly incomplete.

[00:00:13]For the majority of our time on this planet, humanity [music] has relied on myth to tell us the story of who we are and where we [music] came from.

[00:00:25]Today, we often think of myths as fantasies, [music] fairy tales for simple-minded primitives.

[00:00:31]We read about science myth-busting old ideas, demonstrating how superior our knowledge is to that of our ancestors.

[00:00:41]But, perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to draw these conclusions. We've begun to discover that some myths are rooted in truth.

[00:00:50]Troy, the famous city attacked by Greek heroes in the Iliad, had been thought fiction for hundreds of years, an invention of [music] Homeric epic poetry.

[00:01:00]That is, until Heinrich Schliemann's team discovered its remains and those of its arch-rival Mycenae in the late 19th century, completely shifting the paradigm around the credibility [music] of ancient sources.