The Llycurgus Cup

If global trade was disrupted with a catastrophic event similar to the late bronze age collapse, we would have to go back to older computing technology. This is memnon's mask. Who here knows who agamemnon is? Nfortunaely, it's probably not. But a very fanciful nineteenth century archaeologist thought that it was Agamemnon. For about 200 years after products like this were produced, there were no city states, no cities and no products like this in mainland greece. The roman example is nearly one and a half thousand years later, and it's not a straightforward collapse case,. though people talk about the fall of the Roman empire.

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