“A common Indo-European mythologem told of the creation of the world from the sacrifice of a primordial androgyne ... There is the figure of Manu whose name is derived from Proto-Indo-European *manu-, "man" (as in English 𝑚𝑎𝑛)...who is described as the first man." — B. Lincoln “In Rome, similar historicizing of the myth took place, yet our mythic scenario of the sacrifice of one primal twin by the other is discernible nonetheless in the story of Romulus and Remus.” — Bruce Lincoln

"Here we report fossil hairs...that were discovered in a hyaena coprolite from the Gladysvale cave fossil site in South Africa...dated to the Middle Pleistocene (195‚000–257‚000 years ago)....we attribute the fossil hair specimens to Homo sapiens." — Lucinda Backwell "In cross-section the hairs are generally oval or concavo convex, a feature shared with modern humans. They had an average diameter of 82 by 56 mm, which falls comfortably within the range of humans and other higher primates...human hair is the closest match." — Lucinda Backwell

"Lake Mega Chad had its largest extent between
5‚500–4‚950 BCE, when the lake’s surface area measured approximately 361,000 km2. The lake was
therefore equivalent in surface area to the Caspian Sea, in surface area the largest lake that exists on earth today." — Thomas Schneider "The first three hours of the Egyptian Book of the Underworld—Amduat—were inspired by the palaeoecological environment of the Western Desert of Egypt and northeastern Chad in the early 2nd millennium BCE." — Thomas Schneider