seethe pictogram of the purple object? that is a fruit that came from a member of the deadly nightshade family. though the fruit itself isn't poisonous, we believe they sent images of it in an attempt to ward off foes, who would respond often with a pigrogram of 3 tear droplets, showing terror
"we believe they were a society built entirely from single use plastics, and the society collapsed as the males invested all their resources in increasingly large trucks used as dominence displays when competing for females"
Future archaeology proferssor: lAnd they worshipped the sphere, a sacred monument to the god of all sports of ball, in the ancient holy city of Las Vegas”
Sounds like "Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay (yes, the guy who did those books about Roman cities and Egyptian pyramids) would be right up your alley.
peresedenet teremep dynasty was succeeded by the peresedenet beden dynasty, although the contemporary record is unclear if this was a legitimate succession or not.
Also, given enough time, I think it's very possible that the 250-odd years of the US, and the 100 or so years of the 'Pax Americana', will just be forgotten, or a sort of interesting side note. It just fits too easily into being an extension of European colonialism, with 1000 year glasses on.
I think, given enough time, it'll either be remembered as more or less the beginning of history or like Atlantis Sodom or something. Magic carriages with round feet issuing noxious fumes, terrible flying machines watching over, all ruled by bull worshipping men in black suits, know what I mean?
Eventually there will be an entire wing in an archeology department somewhere to work out how two identical caves appeared, hundreds of thousands of years apart, in Chauvet France.
The key years were 1963 to 1968. A whole generation of American radicals & liberals were killed. JFK was the beginning. You COULD make a career off those stories.
Remember those "dark" interstitia between great dynasties and golden ages? Some say they may have been good times when great men and mighty rulers where not in ordinary peoples' business. Maybe you're due.
Political scientists focusing on American politics are already dryly referred to within the field as Americanists, which, y'know, does have a more patriotic ring to it, for whatever reason.
