Mythteries and Mythnomers - Dirt 101

Since back-to-school season is rolling around again, let's return to our annual tradition of busting myths and righting wrongs! This time, we cover pyramid construction (and curses), the Genghis Khan family reunion, the end of James Cook, Stonehenge, the Dark Ages, and more. This episode is not to be myth-ed.

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• This 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid (LiveScience)

• How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built? (LiveScience)

• Was It Really a Mummy’s Curse? (JSTOR Daily)

• Tomb of Pennut - Amada (Osirisnet)

• 'Bent' pyramid: Egypt opens ancient oddity for tourism (The Guardian)

• Ancient Egyptian tomb warnings, curses and ghosts (National Museums Scotland)

• Whence Came Stonehenge’s Stones? Now We Know (The New York Times)

• We owe it all to superstud Genghis (The Guardian)

• Did Genghis Khan really kill 1,748,000 people in one hour? (How Stuff Works)

• 1 in 200 Men Are Direct Descendants of Genghis Khan (Discover)

• Genghis Khan's Genetic Legacy Has Competition (Scientific American)

• 1.5m Chinese 'descendants of one man' (BBC News)

• The genetic imprint of Niall of the Nine Hostages (Irish Times)

• A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland (American Journal of Human Genetics)

• Mythbusting Cook: Fact fiction and total fallacy (Australian National Maritime Museum)

• Cooktown's Indigenous people help commemorate 250 years since Captain Cook's landing with re-enactment (ABC)

• How the foolish rumour that Hawaiians ate Cook began (National Indigenous Television)

• The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark As We Thought (LitHub)

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