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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1216 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 2, 2026

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I like interesting historical theories. Especially with an element of the fantastical. Ancient apocalypse series is full of them.

Another one I read somewhere was about how "dragons" might have been real. A large winged predator that was hunted to extinction at the end of the last ice age as they clashed with human populations.

Anyone have any fun ones they've read recently?

There's a great theory out there about how, three and a half millennia ago, the Mediterranean was dominated by super advanced civilizations. Like, this is way before classical Greece, but supposedly these guys had intercontinental trade routes, giant palace complexes, literacy, booming populations, etc. The kinds of things you would expect from the Roman Empire. Then a series of catastrophes happened, culminating by an invasion of mysterious sea people that came out of literally nowhere; their cities burned, massive fractions of the population died, pottery and art regressed hundreds of years, the written word was lost and had to be reinvented with new alphabets... basically their own version of the dark ages.

It's an excellent theory, with lots of detailed lore and worldbuilding, it almost makes me think it was real... oh, wait.

"Intercontinental" is overselling it a bit when we're talking trade that is mostly Mediterranean+.

Greece is in Europe, Egypt is in Africa, and Hittites and Assyrians were in Asia; good enough for me.

Besides, the point of the meme is to play up Bronze Age civilization as much as possible with technically-true statements, to make it sound like a crazy conspiracy theory on par with ancient aliens and Atlantis.

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