Looking for history rabbit holes to fall into.
For me it has always been the Bronze Age Collapse - how exactly did almost every major civilization near Greece and Egypt that was thriving in 1200 BCE just collapse or drastically weaken over a span of ~50 years? Related mystery - where did the Sea Peoples, raiders who are proposed to have played a role in the collapse, even come from?
Not any specfic event but I’d really love to know how advanced the most high tech ancient tools were. I bet they were way more sophisticated than we give them credit for. There have been some objects recovered that are built to such high tolerances that it’s virtually impossible to make them by hand and we have no clue how they did those.
The antikythera mechanism blows my mind