or.

Brian Remelli has a post on X telling us that there's a Sumerian tablet. So Sumeria, you all know where the Sumerians were right? Do you know where the Sumerians were? Let's check your general knowledge. That's correct yeah the area which we now call Iraq and you know the larger area there. So the Sumerians were there thousands of years ago and they found this Sumerian tablet from 2000 BCE which apparently shows several math problems being solved including drawings of trapezoids and triangles. It suggests very strongly that the Sumerians understood the Pythagorean theorem long before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. And Brian ends his post with the amnesia of who we really are.

Now I told you I'd like conspiracy theories. Here's the one I like the best. If we know that there are all these buried civilizations we keep finding like there's one whose name I can't recall, Göbekli Tepe. There's Göbekli Tepe and there's others like I said how many times do I have to say it clearly. Göbekli Tepe. But it's the name of another one of these ancient incredible sites that got dug up. It was completely buried and appears to have signs of civilization beyond what we believed existed at the time of these ruins. So there are lots of hints that there might have been an earlier form of humans that were more advanced and something happened so that we lost, maybe we lost what they knew.

So I got to believe that one because if you look at our ability to reconstruct history whether it's the evolutionary tree which is always changing and evolving or the history of humankind, you know did we all come out of Africa, is it more complicated than that? There are big things about the history of the planet that we revise all the time. I would not be surprised at all if we were once more advanced and it wasn't a straight line from primitive to advanced. I've got a feeling it was kind of a bumpy ride where we got more advanced and then we got wiped out by war and we got more advanced and then we got wiped out by a flood. You know probably something like that. It's my guess.

But I've always been amazed that there are abandoned cities. Why would you ever abandon a city? There's something I fundamentally don't understand about history. It's like a whole city. You built the thing. Now I understand if somebody