Ep. 284: The Mystery Of The Tiny Mummified Green Hand + These 40,000 Yr Old Marks May Be A Precursor To Writing
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Ep. 284: The Mystery Of The Tiny Mummified Green Hand + These 40,000 Yr Old Marks May Be A Precursor To Writing

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 9, 202632 min
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Hey, welcome back to Well That's Interesting, the All About Our Mids edition. Today is Episode 284, the mystery of the tiny mummified green hand, and these 40,000 year old marks may be a precursor to writing. friends. If you're a long-time listener of this show, then you know next to holes and

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parasites I can't seem to shut up about rediscoveries. For example, just last month, during the milestone of episode 280, not only did we learn that hummingbirds drink the equivalent of one alcoholic beverage a day thanks to some flowers transforming into microbreweries, but we met Dr. Yorjos Yorgolos, whose name alone sounds like an ancient species, but no,

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he's very human, and he's from the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Krakow. It was his life's goal to rummage through the drawers of London's Natural History Museum all in hopes, and in the staggering off chance, he'd come across a long-forgotten about

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