Part 1 introduces the prehistoric world history that has not been recorded but has been revealed through recent scientific analysis.
Part 2 introduces ancient civilizations that are little known or newly discovered.
Discover the lesser-known stories of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and Indus civilizations, as well as their impact on our nation's history.
In Part 3, we will learn about the dark history of each country during the Middle Ages that they wanted to hide.


After exploring the long bloody battles and erasures between China and the northern nomads, and the two faces of Vietnam, which stood against China as the weak but was utterly cruel to the Cham, we introduce the story of the British royal family's genealogy swap and the many little-known stories of the Crusades during the Middle Ages.
Part 4 begins with the truth about the discovery of the American continent, exploring the lesser-known story of the European Age of Exploration that destroyed American and African civilizations, and the painful history between the United States and Mexico.
The final five parts explore the lesser-known and ongoing violence in Britain, Denmark, and France, through the independence struggles of Iceland and Algeria before and after World War II, and explore the brutal history of oppression that can be perpetrated at any opportunity, in any country, at any time.

--- From "Entering"

That is, if we look at the time of writing, the first written 'Story of the Atrahasis Flood' was included as an episode in the 'Epic of Gilgamesh', and later it is believed to have led to the story of Noah's Ark in the Bible.
The name Dilmun was later used to refer to the island of Bahrain, and it is thought to be the original word for the concept of the Garden of Eden.
Later, Muslims even considered the island of Sri Lanka to be the Garden of Eden.
Also, the story of Gilgamesh losing eternal life because of a snake is very similar to the story of Adam and Eve being driven out of the Garden of Eden.
In this way, in the Mesopotamian region, the story of the great flood, similar to Noah's Ark in the Bible, was already being told in various forms.
- pp22~23.
Part 1.
In search of lost stories from prehistoric times
--- From "Memories of the Great Flood - Why Did They Go to the Mountain?"

But what's most surprising is that the country with the most pyramids in the world is a completely unexpected one.
Huh? Not Egypt? That's right.
The country with the most pyramids is Sudan, a country south of Egypt.
Sudan, which appears as Nubia in the opera 'Aida', is a country that had a long history of exchange with Egypt. In the distant future, at the end of the New Kingdom, it went up the Nile River and conquered Egypt, establishing the 25th Dynasty (744 BC - 656 BC).
(Omitted) These Nubians were so impressed by the pyramids that they continued to build pyramids for over 1,000 years even after construction in Egypt had already stopped.

Initially, only royalty built them, but later nobles also started building them, and although they were smaller at 20 to 40 meters in height, they built more pyramids in number. It is said that five large-scale areas have been discovered to date.
However, most of the larger pyramids have their upper parts destroyed, which is said to be due to the atrocities of grave robbers just 200 years ago.
(Omitted) However, in the 1830s, Giuseppe Ferlini, an Italian doctor and grave robber, set off a bomb in his greed to steal the treasure, destroying the small pyramid entirely and the upper part of the large pyramid.
(Omitted) However, it is said that the artifacts that were excavated with great difficulty were not sold in Europe.
Europeans thought it was fake, as they believed such a magnificent artifact could not have come from Sudan, an unfamiliar African country.

--- 「Part 2.
Ancient Civilizations, In Search of Hidden Stories 02.
From "The Origin of Cat Butlers, Egyptian Civilization"

When we talk about ancient civilizations, we usually think of the 'Four Great Civilizations'.
I learned that in world history class when I was in school.
However, this is a policy that only applies to Korea, China, and Japan.
In the world of academia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley Civilization are considered the first major civilizations, and other civilizations are collectively called the "Cradle of Civilization" rather than specifically called the "Four Great Civilizations."
Because the concept of these four great ancient civilizations is an illusion created in 1900 by Liang Qichao (梁啓超, 1873-1929), a powerful politician and journalist in the Republic of China.
(Omitted) The Yellow River civilization theory proposed by Liang Qichao originated from his 1900 book, “Pacific Song of the Twentieth Century.” He emphasized that China, as an ancient civilization comparable to Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus, could overcome this crisis and rise again by calling it the “four great ancient civilizations.”
However, it is ironic that the country that widely spread Liang Qichao's theory of the four great ancient civilizations was actually Japan.
At that time, when Japan, which had boarded the last train of imperialism, invaded each Asian country, it used the flashy name of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" to emphasize that the East was a civilization that would never be inferior to the West. This claim was accepted and included in Japan's world history textbooks, but it is still used only in East Asia, including our country, to this day.
So, from now on, it would be right to not use the expression 'four great ancient civilizations' that includes the Yellow River civilization, right?
--- 「Part 2.
Ancient Civilizations, In Search of Hidden Stories 04.
From "Ganges Civilization" rather than Indus Civilization

In 1517, more than 100 years before Martin Luther launched his religious reform movement, there was a significant increase in the number of peasants who followed the ideas of Jan Hus (1369–1415), who had already called for religious reform.
Jan Hus, a Catholic priest and president of Charles University in Prague, criticized Catholic corruption and incurred the wrath of Antipope John XXIII, leading to his eventual execution by burning at the stake.
(Omitted) However, when the Inquisition actually began, he was the one who caused Jan Hus to be burned at the stake by turning a blind eye, so the anger of his followers reached the sky, and as the momentum of the Bohemian believers spread further, in 1419, under the command of the one-eyed general Jan Žižka (1360-1424), the peasant army took control of Prague and strongly opposed it, such as by throwing the city council members out of the windows of Prague Castle and killing them.

When King Vaclav IV of Bohemia, who witnessed this incident with his own eyes, died from shock, the Pope and his brother Sigismund declared them heretics and declared a crusade in 1420.
However, the knights, who thought they would win easily, were defeated five times by the Wagenburg tactic of the peasant army led by the outstanding strategist Jan Žižka, who used wagons converted for battle.
(Omitted) The peasant army, having achieved such a dazzling victory, completely took control of the Bohemia region, established a provisional government, and advanced to the western Moravia region, but Jan Žižka died of an infectious disease.
His will was, "Make a drum out of my skin so that I can command the army even after I die."
(Omitted) Although many previous crusades had succeeded in eradicating heresy in Europe, the Knights Templar were defeated by an ill-armed and poorly trained peasant army, and this event is remembered as a symbol of the end of the Middle Ages along with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453.

--- 「Part 3.
In search of a story to hide in the Middle Ages 04.
From "Another Crusade Story I Don't Want to Tell"

Before Cortés, Europeans who arrived in the Yucatán Peninsula were often taken captive by the Mayans, including a sailor named Gonzalo Guerrero (1470–1536).
In 1511, a ship was washed ashore on the coast of Yucatan after being caught in a storm and was captured by a tribe, who sacrificed five of them.
The remaining survivors somehow managed to escape and wandered until they reached the village of Chactemal. Unlike other tribes, the people there treated strangers as guests.
Later, when the other groups set out again, Gonzalo Guerrero decided to stay with the tribe and was noticed by the chief who noticed his strong physique. He married his daughter and the first mestizo children were born.
After his father-in-law passed away, he became the chief of the Chetumal tribe.
(syncopation)

Although the Cortes expedition overthrew the Aztec Empire and pacified the surrounding tribes who resisted in just two years, it took a long time for the Maya to take control of the Yucatan Peninsula as they resisted to the end.
This is said to be the reason why Gonzalo Guerrero gathered the scattered Maya people and encouraged them to fight to the death, saying, “Never trust white people!”
He knew the minds of imperialist Europeans all too well.
Finally, at the end of June 1536, after 17 years of struggle, a fierce battle was fought to completely subdue the Chetumal tribe, and Guerrero met his end alongside the Mayans at the age of 66.
It is said that the Spanish soldiers who confirmed his body after being shot by a matchlock gun at the time were surprised to see that he was wearing the same clothes as the Mayans and had tattoos all over his body.
Today, a statue of him stands in the city of Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula, honoring Guerrero for giving his life for the Maya people, and revering him not as Cortés but as the "Father of All Mestizaje" (Padre del Mestizaje).
(Omitted) But… , doesn't this story of assimilating into the natives and fighting against invaders from their homeland seem familiar? Yes, that's right.
They say that this person was the inspiration for the movie 'Avatar'.

--- 「Part 4.
In search of a sad story in the age of imperialism 02.
From "The Truth About the Fall of the Aztec Empire"

As a result, even recently, there have been frequent instances of harsh discrimination by the French police against Algerian immigrants and riots in response to this.
In particular, the '1961 Paris Massacre' is a case that clearly shows the dark side of France.
At the time, during the war of independence, some independence fighters infiltrated France and killed 11 Paris police officers and wounded 17 others, so the French police ordered a curfew for Algerians and Muslims only.
In response, Algerians living in France gathered in the streets of Paris to peacefully protest, but the police opened fire indiscriminately on them, killing over 300 people.
In particular, during this process, children holding their mothers' hands and babies in strollers were brutally thrown into the Seine River and killed, and some protesters were found dead with their hands and feet tied.
However, due to strict media control and the indifference of European countries at the time, this tragedy was not widely known.
Most recently, on June 27, 2023, the death of an Algerian boy shot by police sparked protests across France that lasted for over a month, including arson and looting.
Because the Korean media primarily focuses on American media reports, they often encounter racial discrimination against people of color in the United States, but they often do not know much about the reality of racial discrimination in other regions, such as Europe.

--- 「Part 5.
Modern times, the history of bullying that still doesn't end 02.
From "The Long Bad Relations Between France and Algeria"