15 Legendary Cultures That Left a Mysterious Mark on History
There’s a lot of history out there. Plenty of it is extremely well-documented — we know a lot of incredibly unexciting details about European royalty and tediously worded bylaws — but there’s a lot that isn’t. Odd, mysterious artifacts that raise a lot more questions than they answer, intriguingly complex objects from an era nobody would expect and indecipherable texts missing any sort of keystone to translate them for modern eyes.
It’s all a reminder that, however important any of us think we are as individuals, or occasionally feel on a big birthday, we’ll all be forgotten. Time moves in a way that we’re powerless against. Names are forgotten, monuments crumble.
Like, imagine if there was a king ages ago who thought he was really important, and made statements like “Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!”, but like, as time went on he was just forgotten? Imagine that. Someone should write a poem about that as an idea, it would be really good. Then… forgotten.
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The Mesoamericans Who Mastered Aerial Imagery a Millennium Before Flight
The Seafaring Warriors Who Devastated Ancient Egypt
The Tartessos Civilization
The ‘Lost Colony’ with Its Mysterious Parting Message
Baalbeck’s Physics-Defying Temple
The Neolithic Star-Mappers
The Unreadable Language of Easter Island
The Self-Destructive Chinese Civilization
The World’s Oldest Town, or Temple, or Something
The Civilization That Knew Something We Don’t About Peace
The Proof At Least One Person in Ancient Greece Was Centuries Ahead
The Enormous Stone Balls with No Clear Purpose
The Sajama Lines
The Ancient Burial Site We’ve Ruined for Everyone
The Ancient Precursor to Sports Fandom
