If you haven't already, give the Fall of Civilizations podcast [1] a listen. It's one of my favourites - informative, engaging and peaceful listening - about how civilizations rise and fall. Episode 8 is about the Sumerians in Iraq and might give you a picture of how these people lived (if nearly 1500 years earlier).

[1]: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

Reminds me of this one https://ncase.me/sim/

> > (3) There is no visual indicator of where you are are in your undo/redo history.

> There might be plugins that somehow present this info in the interface.

The undotree vim plugin [1] does this, and gives both the file at the time as well as a diff of what changed.

[1]: https://github.com/mbbill/undotree

For anyone looking for a way of talking to friends or family who are into conspiracy theories, this book is good: https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Rabbit-Hole-Conspiracy-Theor...