What Are The World's Oldest Stories? - Documentary

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In this video, we take a look at some interesting stories that some researchers believe not only have a basis in truth, but which may be shockingly ancient. Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Fireoflearning The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Download available at incompetech.com Firesong Lightless Dawn These songs provided by the YouTube audio library: Spirit of Fire - Jesse Gallagher Lost in the Forest - Doug Maxwell Somnolent - The Tides Thin Places - Jesse Gallagher Dreaming Blue - Sextile Mer-Ka-Ba - Jesse Gallagher Glacier - Chris Haugen Works Cited can be viewed publicly here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-are-worlds-113087815 Picture Attributions: By Graeme Churchard from Bristol (51.4414, -2.5242), UK - On the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30873440 By TimJN1 - Bradshaw Art, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22779917 By Epmatsw - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32942620 By Corey Leopold - cropped version ofImage:Uluru, helicopter view.jpg respectively Uluru/Ayers Rock, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4848878 By Mauricio Antón - from Caitlin Sedwick (1 April 2008). "What Killed the Woolly Mammoth?". PLoS Biology 6 (4): e99. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060099., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11781070 By Dallas Krentzel - Giant ground sloths Megalocnus rodens and Megalonyx wheatleyi at the American Museum of Natural HistoryUploaded by FunkMonk, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20353286 By Ghedoghedo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26800680 By John Megahan - Ancient DNA Tells Story of Giant Eagle Evolution. PLoS Biol 3(1): e20. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030020.g001, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52877 By The original uploader was Pieter0024 at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2417250 By Mr Langlois10 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99173190 By Esther 1721 https://pixabay.com/nl/users/esther1721-534895/ - https://pixabay.com/nl/aboriginal-kunst-503444/ archive copy at the Wayback Machine, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54399218 By Carl Drinkwater from Ellesmere, Shropshire, UK - M45 - PleiadesUploaded by ComputerHotline, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18416844 By W.carter - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108884810 By Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr) - Pont du Gard, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33474941 By ESO/B. Tafreshi - http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1347a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29844980 By Katerina Douka & Michelle O’Reilly, Michael D. Petraglia - "On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives", Science 08 Dec 2017: Vol. 358, Issue 6368, DOI: 10.1126/science.aai9067 [1], CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71689358 By BreakdownDiode - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98929611 By listfiles/Kanguole - Own work, based on file:map of Sunda and Sahul.png and usingCoastline from Natural Earth 1:50m Physical Vectors125m depth contour derived from 2-Minute Gridded Global Relief Data (ETOPO2) v2, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, using gdal_contour (from GDAL)., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127823375