What Are The World's Oldest Stories? - Documentary

In this video, we take a look at some interesting stories that some researchers believe not only have a basis in truth, but which may be shockingly ancient.

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The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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Firesong
Lightless Dawn


These songs provided by the YouTube audio library:

Spirit of Fire - Jesse Gallagher
Lost in the Forest - Doug Maxwell
Somnolent - The Tides
Thin Places - Jesse Gallagher
Dreaming Blue - Sextile
Mer-Ka-Ba - Jesse Gallagher
Glacier - Chris Haugen


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