https://www.livescience.com/amp/earliest-form-of-pythagorean-triplet?__twitter_impression=true

Fascinating!

Our civilization had a major reset of sorts about 12,000 years ago. Some Earth catastrophe(perhaps a major pole shift) where many records and peoples were wiped out. There was so much knowledge that was lost as well. The Great Flood was a little over 4000 yrs ago. "There's nothing new under the Sun" - Solomon in Ecclesiastes was right.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure what that really has to do with this 3,700 year old tablet.

Some believe "we" developed fairly advanced cultures a very long time ago. And there have been genetic "tweaks" along the way...

Is the "some" mostly just you?

the dinosaurs had fighter jets if you believe it hard enough.

schmendeler said:

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the dinosaurs had fighter jets if you believe it hard enough.

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Ah, yes. The Super Mario Movie hypothesis

I have always been fascinated by the accomplish of ancient civilizations in the Americas.

A lot of the scientific advances experienced in ME / Europe were also learned and almost perfected in South and Central America prior the arrival of Europeans in the 2nd millennium AD.

There have been many societies that advanced pretty far along the scientific frontier, and then reset.

We are arrogant to think we will be immune to this in the future. We certainly have the means to create a great reset to almost zero knowledge.

BusterAg said:

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I have always been fascinated by the accomplish of ancient civilizations in the Americas.

A lot of the scientific advances experienced in ME / Europe were also learned and almost perfected in South and Central America prior the arrival of Europeans in the 2nd millennium AD.

There have been many societies that advanced pretty far along the scientific frontier, and then reset.

We are arrogant to think we will be immune to this in the future. We certainly have the means to create a great reset to almost zero knowledge.

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It's sort of scary when you dig into it. We're an almost entirely digitized society dependent on a vast amount of infrastructure to maintain our current knowledge. Even if we have electricity and computers forever, archivists are already having nightmares about obsolete data protocols from the 80's and 90's that are extremely difficult and time consuming to access. It's a cool thought experiment to try and think of an ancient civilization using similarly complex and obscure information technology and then losing access to it. There would be almost no trace left.

There's a reason that all the ancient ruins in the world are stone. It's the only thing that lasts that long. There are several project all over the world to try and save essential knowledge on stone. The closest I know is the Guidestones in Georgia