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What historical mysteries have been solved recently?
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What historical mysteries have been solved recently?
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>>496400
The Baghdad battery.
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>>496400
The one of the Druids.
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>>496428
So the secret of the magic potion?
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>>496434
No, this one.
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Too bad it takes way too long to solve these mysteries and no guarantee they ever get solved. I desire certainty.
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>>496402
Go on.
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>>496400

We now know that Richard III's corpse wasn't dug up and thrown in the river, that he had a serious spinal condition but was NOT a hunchback and that the battle of Bosworth field didn't happen at Ambion Hill.

Not massive things but people had been wondering about all of them for years and had been dismissed as loons.
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>>496400
Crassus' lost legion, thanks to archeological progress in central Asia.
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>>496400
Damascus steel, although the exact technique is lost researchers have pretty much worked out what it takes to make it even thou sperglords still harp on about how it's "muh ancient mysterious power steel"
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>>499966
How good is it compared to modern steel?
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>>499966
they havent the mystery of its creation
>>501314
outperforms it in sharpness and is exceptionally durable/elastic
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>Discovery of Phillip II of Macedon's remains aka Diogenes BTFO
>Sunstone of Norse navigator legends
>The missing ship from some Canadafag expedition.

That's off the top of my head, anyways.
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