31 of the Most Intriguing Things About Ancient History
‘Humans have been around for over 100,000 years. How is there only writing going back 6,000 years?’
One of the biggest misunderstandings about history as an entire discipline of knowledge is that we know all of it. In fact, even to say we know most of it is still way off. We’ve only got the barest sliver of what came before, such a small slice that it would be insulting if left out at an office pizza party.
There’s an incredible amount of information that was lost to time along with the people it concerned. Huge gaps that historians can’t do much past postulating on, which lends a certain mystery.
Redditors collected the facts and thoughts that sent their brains reeling when it came to unrecorded history. See if they’ll trigger a minor existential crisis by reading on.