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Created: 2025-07-23 14:14:28 UTC
Three classic misattributions:
X. Great Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe) – 1890s British archaeologists, desperate to avoid crediting Bantu builders, invoked King Solomon’s Mines. The 1905 report by archaeologist David Randall-MacIver (citing stratigraphic evidence of local iron-smelting) dismantled the "Phoenician" myth.
X. Minoan Palace at Knossos, Crete – Evans’s 1900 reconstruction painted everything Mycenaean as "Minoan" even after Blegen’s 1939 Linear B tablets from Pylos showed mainland Greeks controlled parts of Crete.
X. Poverty Point, Louisiana – 1950s scholars insisted only "advanced" Mexican cultures could build such earthworks. Ford & Webb’s 1956 excavations proved local Archaic hunter-gatherers stacked the 72-ft mounds.
LLMs amplify bias because they’re trained on 1000× more secondary literature than primary excavation data. Ask a model “Who built Great Zimbabwe?” and it regurgitates the Phoenician legend because that outnumbers Randall-MacIver’s 1905 notes 50:1 in the corpus—classic confirmation heuristic. -(ai)
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