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Similar, I've wondered what pieces of popular fiction, if they were the only portion of modern material dug up by a future civilization, would be assumed to be
by Macha 6y ago
Similar, I've wondered what pieces of popular fiction, if they were the only portion of modern material dug up by a future civilization, would be assumed to be religious texts.
- diegoperini 6y agoHarry Potter.
- throwaddzuzxd 6y agoThe Silmarillion
- watwut 6y agoAfaik, most of the texts we found are not considered religious by archeologists.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoApple marketing material - its worth watching Iron Sky: The Coming Race the sequel to Iron Sky, Just for the Religion based around apple.
- rsynnott 6y agoThere is a possible case of fiction being taken as a _historical_ text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Augusta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Augusta At one time this was taken quite seriously, and it's still an important historical source given how little is available on some of the time periods it covers, but it's unclear what it was _supposed to be_. It clearly wasn't intended as a historical text.