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And let's not think about prehistory (thelemmy.club)
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Context: While the 90% figure is made-up, the premise is true in that most of human history has gone unrecorded. History is considered to have begun with the start of proto-writing (earliest being the Jiahu symbols in China circa 6600 BCE) to writing (3200 BCE), and thus the advent of recorded history.

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[-] CobraCommander@quokk.au 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Thankfully we are having some luck in restoring lost content.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/herculaneum-scrolls-mount-vesuvius-ai

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/13/two-lost-doctor-who-episodes-from-the-1960s-found-and-regenerated

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