Lost Worlds
Other traditions: Lost worlds
Lost Worlds pages that draw on Other traditions, each with the sources shown. Start with Bronze Age collapse, Doggerland, Göbekli Tepe, The Younger Dryas freeze.
Events · Other traditionsBronze Age collapseAround 1200 BCE, within a few decades, the great kingdoms of the eastern Mediterranean fell: cities burned, a Hittite capital was abandoned and writing vanished from Greece. A clay tablet from Ugarit records the king saying enemy ships had come while his own fleet was away. What brought down a whole connected world?Places · Other traditionsDoggerlandWhere the North Sea is now, there was once dry land joining Britain to Europe. Fishermen's nets still bring up Stone Age harpoons and mammoth bones from it. A huge underwater landslide off Norway sent a tsunami across it around 6150 BCE. Doggerland was real, not a legend. How did it vanish?Places · Other traditionsGöbekli TepeHunters who had not yet farmed raised giant T-shaped stone pillars in Turkey around 9500 BCE, some carved with arms and hands, as if the stones were people. That is thousands of years before Stonehenge. Archaeologists reject lost-civilization claims, but agree the site changed what we thought early foragers could build. What was it for?Events · Other traditionsThe Younger Dryas freezeAbout 12,900 years ago, the warming world suddenly plunged back toward Ice Age cold for around 1,200 years, then snapped back within decades. Plato's date for sinking Atlantis falls near its end. Most scientists call that a coincidence, and a comet explanation remains a minority view. So what did cause the freeze?Places · Other traditionsVitrified fortsSome Iron Age hillforts in Scotland and Europe have walls melted into glass, which takes fires of roughly 850 to 1100 degrees Celsius. Strangely, vitrifying makes a wall weaker, not stronger, so someone may have wanted them destroyed. A 1937 test wall burned with ordinary timber and made glass. So who set the fires?
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