Something like the trojan wars do seem to have happened, there's signs of large battles at Troy around the time of the bronze age collapse. One theory I've heard was disruptions in the Greek world led to a giant raid in Troy, the wealthy trading city that guarded the route to the Black Sea, and by sacking Troy they ultimately disrupted the trade networks that brought tin to the region and contributed to the bronze age collapse.

Ultimately it's kinda unknowable, but it certainly fits with the Iliad actually having really good directions and the timelines of that era's Troy/Mycenaean civilizations collapse.

Yes. Unless you're moving small and very high value objects, a boat will always be the better way to move bulk goods. One of the reasons Rome was so successful was the ability to use the Mediterranean to transport goods the way we use trains today.

I don't know how much tin is needed to make bronze, but I would hazard a guess that boats along the Indian ocean played a big role.

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That's so cool. Thank you for your knowledge.

Yeah, that sounds right. Haven’t seen him in so long it slipped my mind. I’ve been walking around completely unwary. I feel so vulnerable.

I'm theorising from what is laid out in your own source, that it might be caused by contamination. I find contamination much more likely than the Egyptians having trade routes with pre colombian people.

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Ok, so they found traces on the mummies, not in the tombs, and they have only been found on mummies in that museum. I'd say it's much more likely that someone probably thought it would be fun to do lines on the mummies at some kind of after work party.

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They're not even that far away. When they marched on Greece the Achaemenids (Persians) marched from Babylon just north of Ur to Greece.

The statue is dated even earlier

>small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century.

Instructions unclear. Sheep stuck in river.

Normally the individual merchants don’t range that far, but goods will change hands many times. If thirty people each move goods 10 miles they can get very far away.

If I remember correctly, they went by shittymorph.

They took a small break during the pandemic; something about trolling enough people for a while or something. They still creep the subreddits as far as I know so keep your wits about you.

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Ur was located in ancient Mesopotamia’s Sumeria, and is now within the modern borders of Iraq.

Please provide a source for such an utterly preposterous claim.

Yes. They just built the new city on the ruins of the old one.

Make sure to take the fleece off the sheep first!

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Eight century is quite early