21:4321:43, 30 July 2019diffhist−797
Last Roman Emperor
Saint Remigius died centuries before the two he apparently relayed his unsourced prophecy too, and furthermore how would he predict the return of the *Holy* Roman Empire when it had not yet been established? Perhaps they meant the recently destroyed (Western) Roman Empire? Regardless, it was unsourced and the claims didn't add up.
23:1223:12, 26 January 2019diffhist−805
Walls of Benin
Biased/opinionated source and there is no citation given whatsoever for the claim that the builders of Benin had any knowledge of fractals, let alone used them in their city planning.
22:5622:56, 26 January 2019diffhist−518
Walls of Benin
No evidence of that quote, or its speaker, being real. The article cited links to this article: http://revealinghistories.org.uk/colonialism-and-the-expansion-of-empires/articles/the-empire-of-benin-and-its-cultural-heritage.html which has no sources of its own whatsoever and is written in a biased and rather unscholarly manner "Most British casualties were African recruits who were sent on ahead, which the British expended with glee"(uncited opinion, clearly not an academic piece)
22:2222:22, 26 January 2019diffhist−168
Walls of Benin
The source cited did not support the claim that the walls were ever the longest walls on the planet or ever made, and gave an entirely different figure for the length(160km vs 16,000km). Also the source did not support the claim that the walls enclosed an area of 6,500km^2, rather suggesting they enclosed roughly the area of Greater London(approximately 1,600km^2 but I didn't replace the figure because I don't have an exact figure)