Restart the clock at 1950?

Our current system for dating timelines is broken, so here’s a new one.

Dr. Michael Brown and his team of student archeologists were on a dig in eastern Iraqi Kurdistan, close to the Iranian border, when they stumbled upon some spectacular ancient ruins. It was a fortress, buried only a few centimetres under the yellow gravel-like sand of the area. They knew they had discovered something big: the centre of the…