At what point does knowledge of history breakdown?

[GIJane]

This was an interesting article discussing the Piri Peis map.

 

[GIJane]

Lots have been lost, but we also have a lot of information.

But the point is simple...when Christianity started to manifest itself in the Roman Empire and places like the Great Library of Alexandria was destroyed. We lost so much history and knowledge due to this.

Add to this the very conservative methods and ideas of modern historians and archaeologists refusing to even think they are wrong about something...then you have a dangerous combination.

Case in point the Piri Peis map. A map drawn by a Muslim Ottoman Admiral in 1513. He based it off much older maps saved by the Muslims and Jews during the Christian purges. This map clearly shows Antarctica and South America long before bothe were mapped or "discovered" by white Christians.. but to this day the official discovery of Antarctica in 1820...

Many historians have zero explanation of pyramids in Asia and South America that pre date those in Egypt .. it is basically ignored.

The Legendary Piri Reis Map Explained •

In 1929, researchers unexpectedly stumbled across one of the most important artifacts in world history – the Piri Reis map. Lost since the...

universe-inside-you.com

 

[Oozlefinch]

At what point does history meaning our knowledge of it really break down as an idea?

Pretty much the moment things go beyond any form of literacy.

This is why even though the Mississippian Culture covered most of the SE of North America and the final collapse was less than 50 years before Europeans arrived, almost nothing is known about it. We know about as much about the Mississippian Culture as we know about the culture that built Gobekli Tepe. Or whatever culture that Otzi belonged to.

The actual year itself does not even matter. After all, the collapse of the Mississippian Culture was only in the mid-1400s CE. Yet we know more of the era of Scorpion II over 5,000 years ago because that also dates to when hieroglyphs first evolved.

But in general, it is almost universal any time a culture or people pass before the Bronze Age into the Chalcolithic and earlier eras.

 

[mrjurrs]

99.999999999999999999999999999% is lost.

Why do you think we keep repeating it?

Because we don't learn from the .00000000000000000000001 that we remember.