Wrong timing

A person’s DNA more than identifies them. Analysis of the DNA of a human skeleton found by archaeologists in the Nile Valley in 1902 and displayed at the United Kingdom’s World Museum Liverpool yielded clues to the life of an Egyptian villager 4,500 years ago as well as the history of ancient civilizations.

The DNA taken from the teeth indicated traces of genes of ancestors who lived in Mesopotamia, the ancient civilization in modern Iraq which is 1,500 kilometers from Egypt. This suggests that people from the two ancient civilizations were in contact and possibly co-developed writing systems and agriculture, BBC reports.

Prior to the findings published in the journal “Nature,” there was no record of interaction and ties between ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians.

Adeline Morez Jacobs, who analyzed the remains, told BBC the DNA was the first clear-cut evidence of the significant migration of people and exchange of information between the two centers of civilization at the time.

History, however, pales in comparison to what the past is for National Basketball Association (NBA) star Tyler Herro.

The Miami Heat shooting guard was interviewed on the Twitch livestreaming channel of popular streamers Adin Ross and N3on on 13 June, with listeners also asking the guest questions.

A fan asked Herro if Wilt Chamberlain should be in the top five best players of the NBA if the prolific scorer was playing in the league today.

“I don’t even know what Wilt looked like, played like,” Herro responded, Miami New Times (MNT) reports.

Then Ross asked, “Do you think he dropped 100?” referring to Chamberlain’s score in one game, which remains an NBA record today.

“Do you think history is like a real thing? No, I don’t believe in history,” Herro said, according to MNT.

N3on then asked if he believed in the moon landing. Herro replied, “No, I don’t believe in that; I don’t believe in anything that happened before 1950.”

The 100-point score by Chamberlain of the then Philadelphia Warriors team happened in an untelevised game against the New York Knicks on 2 March 1962. As for the moon landing, it happened in 1969, also contradicting Herro’s no-history stance before 1950.