The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations — How History Invents Civilizations (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode examines how historical knowledge-production systems influence belief, identity, and institutional outcomes.
Using Paul Collins’s The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations as an entry point, the discussion explores how archaeologists, museums, empires, governments, and scholars transformed fragments of the ancient past into coherent narratives about civilization’s origins.
By focusing on patterns rather than individuals, the episode shows why these narratives persist even when the evidence becomes more…
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