8. Explain the fourth reason why history is an interpretation according to Edwin Fenton.

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The fourth reason is that no one person could read and see everything in one lifetime. The renowned Egyptologist, Dr. Zwai Hawass, relies on experts in various fields when working on an excavation. Someone would have to become an accomplished linguist to read the inscriptions, then, he would need to be a paleobotanist, architect, specialist in ancient materials used for mummification and more in order to read the original language, all remaining source material about the pyramid of Giza and to supplement this knowledge by examining buildings and other artifacts from the period. Consider books alone. Let's say you read two a week, and sometimes you take on a long one that takes you a whole week. That's quite a brisk pace for the average person. That lets you finish, let's say, 100 books a year. If we assume you start now, and you're 15, and you are willing to continue at this pace until you're 80. That's 6,500 books, which really sounds like a lot. The vast majority of the world's books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It's just numbers.

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Sources: Manual page (2) http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2011/04/21/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything

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