After listening to Dr. Robert M. Schoch on various podcasts, I'm starting to wonder if there could be, or have been, long-dead civilizations for which we have little-to-no evidence. This guy isn't a crackpot from some backwater university, this is a Yale-trained Ph.D.. His hypothesis that the Sphinx is actually 12,000 years old would imply that there have been much older civilizations which have died out.
Can you build something like the Sphinx without any form of written system at all? I don't honestly know, but my educated guess would be a resounding "no". If that's the case, it throws everything we know about "the Alphabet" up in the air.
What if our writing system is actually far, far older than we believe? I don't think its really "important", but its definitely fun to ponder.
Can you build something like the Sphinx without any form of written system at all? I don't honestly know, but my educated guess would be a resounding "no". If that's the case, it throws everything we know about "the Alphabet" up in the air.
What if our writing system is actually far, far older than we believe? I don't think its really "important", but its definitely fun to ponder.