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Jan 2022
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Conversations: The Conspiracy & Conspiri...

Liv Albert
About this episode

CW/TW: brief mention of Canadian Residential Schools and recent and ongoing discovery of graves.

Liv speaks with archaeologist Steph Halmhofer about conspiracy and conspirituality in archaeology and pseudoarchaeology, Atlantis and its dangerous development into what it is today, and more. Follow Steph on Twitter @cult_archaeo.

Further Reading: Plato's Timaeus and Critias, quotes translated by Benjamin Jowett; A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal State by Stephen P. Kershaw (includes alternate translation of Plato); PDF: Truth, Lies, and History in Plato's Timaeus and Critias by Thomas K Johansen, 1998.

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