Recovering the history that got neglected, distorted, or erased.
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A city in Thailand is literally named after his kingdom. A real court ordered a real excavation to check what's buried at his birthplace. And a famous "NASA proved it" claim about the bridge to Lanka is something NASA has publicly denied ever saying. Let's go through all of it, honestly, one piece at a time.
Open with Research AccessNot a claim of proof. A walk through six separate, independent kinds of evidence — a grammar book, a Greek convert's own monument, a temple inscription, ancient coins you can see in a museum today, an underwater excavation, and a foreign ambassador's report — each one checkable on its own. Built on the method explained in the last piece.
Open with Research AccessBefore this series makes any historical claim, you deserve to know exactly how historians know what they know. Not "ancient texts said so" — actual materials, actual methods, actual limits. This is the piece that earns the right to write the rest of this series.
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