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Were there civilisations on Earth before ours?

ARCHAEOLOGY

cientists cannot tell for sure whether Earth was previously the home of a civilisation comparable to that of humans. If the civilisation existed in the Silurian period 430 million years ago, almost all evidence would have vanished by now.

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