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History is written by some combo of historians & surviving records.

With "records" being any physical objects that outlast oral history: writings, clay tablets, the pyramids of Egypt, etc.

(and note the "surviving" bit!)

This says nothing of what really happened in the past. Only what exists in the present to support particular reconstructions of past events.



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