![]() ![]() It is an interesting hypocrisy that exists within our knowledge of the past, and probably due in part to the discrete learning of different places and times that we get taught at school. We tend to have a juxtaposed view of the ancient past: that people were simultaneously less advanced than us, with archaic views on women, people of different races, and little technology, but also great forefathers in maths, science, democracy, and capable of creating wondrous feats of engineering that even today we’re not quite sure how they were built – the pyramids, huge Roman systems of aqueducts, stone henges.
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