What If We’re Wrong About the Past?

Humanity has struggled with a strange problem: how do you leave a message that people will still understand 10,000 years from now?

If meaning can disappear that easily, how certain can we be that we fully understand the civilizations that came before us?

This episode explores lost languages, undeciphered scripts, changing archaeological interpretations, and the uncomfortable possibility that sometimes the evidence survives while the meaning does not.