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Michael Button

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Michael Button

@MichaelButtonX

Ancient History BA | 200K on YouTube | JRE #2368 Writing about civilizational collapse: michaelbutton.substack.com

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Michael Button
@MichaelButtonX
Aug 20, 2025
What a privilege to sit down with the legend @joerogan and talk all things ancient history, lost civilizations and more! Thanks so much Joe - it was an honour!
Michael Button
@MichaelButtonX
Jul 26
'Denny' was a 13-year-old girl who lived about 90,000 years ago. Discovered in 2012, she is the only first-generation hybrid ever found, meaning her mother was a Neanderthal and her father was a Denisovan
Michael Button
@MichaelButtonX
Jul 25
In 525 BC, the Persian king Cambyses II sent 50,000 men across the desert to destroy the Oracle of Amun. But the army vanished. Herodotus reports what the locals told him. As the soldiers stopped for a midday meal, "a wind of extraordinary violence" rose from the south, and
Michael Button
@MichaelButtonX
Jul 24
Everyone says Napoleon was a military genius. But I think that's only half the story. The real reason he became unstoppable is the rules of war changed... and he was the first person to notice. New video 👇
Michael Button
@MichaelButtonX
Jul 23
Around 1000 AD, monks on the Silk Road sealed a hidden chamber in a cliff face. Inside were 50,000 manuscripts. They disappeared from history. The Mogao Caves at Dunhuang had been a centre of Buddhist learning for six centuries, where pilgrims and merchants crossing the Gobi

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