[Gay State Conservative]

I know more (or,at least,I *think* I know more) about early Asian and African history that I do about Europe's.

[SunkenCiv]

I was just getting around to that:

3,000-year-old gold funeral mask unearthed in noble’s tomb in China
By Tom Metcalfe published 3 days ago
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-gold-funeral-mask-china

Hundreds of artefacts excavated from Qing-era shipwreck in the Yangtze
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
PUBLISHED AT 11:03 PM
ByKEVIN MCSPADDEN
https://www.asiaone.com/china/hundreds-artefacts-excavated-qing-era-shipwreck-yangtze

Archaeologists Discover Evidence of Earliest Known Opium Use
At a burial site in Israel, pottery from the 14th century
Molly Enking
Daily Correspondent
September 22, 2022
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-evidence-of-earliest-known-opium-use-180980823/

[Wilhelm Tell]

“I know more (or,at least,I *think* I know more) about early Asian and African history that I do about Europe’s.”

Can you recommend any good books? About either early Asian or African history. You kind of wonder what history is completely lost to us or was partially preserved in legends, etc. Those would be interesting things to know more about.