Looking for history rabbit holes to fall into.

For me it has always been the Bronze Age Collapse - how exactly did almost every major civilization near Greece and Egypt that was thriving in 1200 BCE just collapse or drastically weaken over a span of ~50 years? Related mystery - where did the Sea Peoples, raiders who are proposed to have played a role in the collapse, even come from?

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I literally just read about this guy last night for the first time then see him mentioned here. Weird.

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Not any specfic event but I’d really love to know how advanced the most high tech ancient tools were. I bet they were way more sophisticated than we give them credit for. There have been some objects recovered that are built to such high tolerances that it’s virtually impossible to make them by hand and we have no clue how they did those.

  • Calcharger@kbin.social
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    1 year ago
    • Cleopatra and Antony’s tomb location(s) would be great, as well as Alexander the Great.
    • Who the Sea People’s were and why did they destroy all of the Mediterranean major civilizations during the bronze age (sans Egypt but they were severely weakened and would never recover)
    • What happened to Legio IX?
    • What the hell are Bears doing in the siege of Themiscyra??!

    I try not to lose sleep over missing artifacts like the Ark of the Covenant or the Florentine Diamond cause they could just have been destroyed. Would be cool if they were discovered.

  • Penguinblue@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You may already be subscribed, OP, but Fall of Civilizations podcast did an episode of the Bronze Age Collapse. It’s a great pod generally for history nerds.

  • sheawoodrow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What happened to the Kruger Millions? My cousin used to live near the Blyde River Canyon, and he would always have a story about a new group of treasure hunters who were sure they had figured it out. Obviously, no one ever did. And then a couple years ago, some coins from the era turned up in a Swiss bank vault. So did someone find the treasure? Was it ever actually buried in South Africa at all? WHO KNOWS!

  • YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m still wondering about the Tomb of Genghis Khan, Nobody knows where Genghis Khan was buried and the people that were there were killed to keep him a secret, to keep where Genghis Khan"s body a secret.

  • IllegallyBlonde@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The Noss family treasure, featured in the documentary “Gold, Lies, & Videotape.”

    More than any other case, and I’m very much into mysteries, I would like to see resolution for this in my lifetime. This family deserves answers.