Modern Mongolia, perhaps. The Golden Horde of Genghis Khan was not so tolerant!

I’ve got young kids. Waking up early is the best time for me to be productive and enjoy solitude.

Also please don’t look at it

There are also kings in the Middle East, and all over Asia and Africa.

I’m sorry to be a wet rag but the comic is simply innacurate.

There are still plenty of kings in the world.

What are some of the harmful things that he’s attached his name to? I’m out of the loop…

Publish or perish

The real singers were two men and a woman, if I recall correctly…

Descartes warned us but we didn’t listen

Devolution confirmed

One historian described him as an “anxiety-ridden nerd”.

TIL that Charles Darwin hated everybody and everything!

Isn’t that Lamarckism? If I recall correctly, that’s an older model of evolution that is not commonly recognized anymore.

I swear that I’m not trying to be obtuse, but I have a lot of doubts.

What kind of ropes and wooden sleds, manufactured in 4000 BC, can move 80 ton stones? There are tensile limits…

I’ve also heard of this. It seems to me that this theory should be easy to confirm with some sort x-ray or radar or lidar or something, so that we can see the shape of the structure beneath the superficial layers…

Source? I’m not doubting you. I’m just surprised that the government would limit research, probably for political reasons.

It seems like you’re out for blood, my friend.

I’ve cited three academic scientists in this conversation. You’re welcome to check them out if you want.

This is a great resource for looking up published research and also unpublished theories.

I don’t know, my friend. I’m not an archeologist or Egyptologist. I’m just an enthusiast who has read a dozen conflicting theories.

Yeah, I remember this guy. He claimed that Stonehenge in England could have been built like this. The pyramids of Giza are much more complex, of course. Still, I think it’s entirely possible that the pyramids were built using very clever engineering principles that were forgotten and that we don’t need because we have cranes and power tools and hydraulics, etc.