COMMON MYTHS About Ancient History - featuring Raven Todd DaSilva from Dig It With Raven

David Miano teams up with Raven Todd DaSilva to discuss ten popular misconceptions or misunderstandings about the ancient past. Instead of the usual long-form commentary seen in this series, this time around a historian and an archaeologist fact-check in short order some beliefs about ancient times and archaeology you might hear around the internet.

Contents:
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Did only 300 Spartans fight at Thermopylae?
03:58 Did the Romans invent the Nazi salute?
05:04 Was the library of Alexandria destroyed in one big fire?
07:43 Was the Great Pyramid built to perfection?
09:48 Did Nero fiddle while Rome burned?
11:45 Did the Romans get their gods from the Greeks?
13:30 Is a helicopter depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphs?
14:59 Is cruder work never found under megaliths?
17:20 Are museums hiding artifacts from the public?
18:51 Was the world's first university founded at Taxila?

Raven's companion video:
   • COMMON MYTHS about Ancient History wi...  

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On the Roman salute:
https://pages.vassar.edu/pharos/2018/...

On the Great Pyramid:
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestori...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24555438...

On Taxila:
https://journal.fi/arctos/article/vie...

On the wheel in Egypt:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/45612/1/2013dohe...

On the Cesarean section:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/...

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