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What about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii_Lakshmi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii_Lakshmi

• hprotagonist 9y ago
  another good one: the Hallstatt salt mines in what is now Austria have been around since the late Iron Age. I recall but cannot currently find studies that have found bags of the mined salt in graves and digs all along the silk road over a time period of millennia. "The Dark Ages" is a horrible name. It was coined to denote "a period that we, historians, don't know much about because we don't have nearly as many anal romans writing everything down and taking notes for us", but it was commonly understood as "a bad, barbaric time when civilization collapsed." It's increasingly clear that nothing so apocalyptic happened. Trade routes survived and even thrived.
  • saimiam 9y ago
    Dark ages => ages we are in the dark about (Tongue well in cheek).
    • hprotagonist 9y ago
      no, really, that’s what the people who coined the term meant.
  • posterboy 9y ago
    > we don't have nearly as many anal romans writing everything down Please, they burned books simply because those didn't suit thier idea of history.