Next Top 28. From what we now know of Hindu cosmological time cycles, human civilization must be far older and its secrets more profound than what is generally inferred from the available historical and archaeological evidence.
History is a story of man's past built up out of written records and dates.
Archaeology lays a foundation where history leaves off. But archaeology makes its greatest contribution in places no longer suitable for human habitation. In places of continued human habitation time quickly lays waste to bricks and mortar, metals are melted down and recast, and any object which is of use is reused or made into something else which is then used. Archaeology will not serve us here. And yet, in these places of continued human habitation, man's deepest past lies hidden.