Why a Billion Years of Earth’s History Just Vanished From Human Records

Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history is missing a nearly quarter-sized piece.

Sal
Lessons from History
6 min readApr 3, 2024

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AI generated image depicting a giant gap in our planet’s history.

Since the good old school days, we’ve learned about the Earth’s history in all its epic glory, but what you might not have known is that an entire BILLION years’ worth of history is supposedly missing from humans’ records.

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Sal
Lessons from History

I am a History Educator and a Lifelong Learner with a Masters in Global History.