As I was thinking about how fun it would be to have a job where you solve puzzles in the world, it struct me that media never depicts archeology in a real light. My short search seemed to confirm my thoughts. Most ancient sites are not guarded by elaborate traps or secret riddles to get in. From what I’ve found there were some crossbows here and there. Some rare hidden rooms with a lot treasure, but again, no traps.
That we know of.
Eh, the terracotta emporer from China almost definitely has booby traps that are likely still functional after 2,000.
We don’t know, because the absolutely insane amount of open mercury in the tomb would have filled it with toxic gases, although it’s likely that wasn’t the intent.
But yeah, most “ancient” tombs were pillaged centuries ago. What little happens now is entirely black market and people probably die all the time.
I know Kim Kardashian took a booty selfie with a sarcophagus at the MET Gala a couple years ago, and one of the illegal tomb raiders recognized it. And because he never got his cut, he snitched to local authorities. So it still happens, we just don’t hear about the vast amount. Just the very careful government sanctioned ones.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a modern day person that buried their fortune with them under puzzles and traps.
That’s what shell companies are for. Legally burry who owns the assets
Would that make lawyers modern day archeologists?
No, forensic lawyers and accountants who unpick it would be the archaeologists.
Probably meant forensic accountants. Tracking the people that we are least know to have plundered these places.
The reason we don’t have more mummies is that the aristocracy back in waiting w were literally eating them.
There was one! Look up Forrest Fenn - the podcast Cautionary Tales has a double feature about it (S6E44-45). True riddles, and treasure hunts, and some deaths despite no traps being set.
I’ll have to take a look.
Tbf there’s that one tv show about that one island in canada or something that had buried treasure and a bunch of traps but then it turned out the treasure had already been found and they think a freed slave found it when he bought the island back in the day or something like that.
Admittedly I’ve only seen one episode, a friend who watched it filled in the details on where it went lol.
That also reminds me of the Oak Island supposed treasure in that pit.
The ones with the traps succeeded in protecting their secrecy.
Be the change you wish to see in the world
Step 1. Have money.
There are many extralegal ways to obtain money. I believe in you
Coincidentally, those ways also make you someone who would booby trap their newly acquired property
Step 2. Hide the money
Step 3. Think of riddles that can’t be solved with a hammer.
Step 4. Build a massive underground structure with tunnels, caves, catacombs, lava, angry spiders and secret doors.
Do you work for big-ancient-temples? It sounds like you’re just setting me up so that I end up in a pit of snakes or buried in lava.
Close. I work for big-pit-snakes. Who do you think supplies the ancient temples?
You mean it isn’t the folks at trap-o-mart?
If you’re serious about your big pit trap you need to be buying your snakes directly from suppliers. Trap-o-mart charges at least 50% more for the same snakes and the benefits of building a relationship with your supplier are too great to ignore.
There is one job that does what archeologist does in films: software engineers.
You have to decipher ancient languages, riddles, and have to avoid traps all the times.
Sure, you don’t go into deep jungle, but you sometimes get to dive into the deep web to find traces of documentations to help resolve a specific case.If it’s important enough for traps, it’s important enough to be hidden. They could just be hidden well enough
You’re gonna have to explore meth houses for that.
Wait, Lara Croft is not real? I’m devastated.
I refuse to believe dinosaurs aren’t alive in some tropical oasis surrounded by an elaborate and abandoned cave system with a functioning works, high up on the Peruvian mountains!
Lies. I saw that kid get carried off on a gurney, on Legends of the Hidden Temple.
This guy clearly never visited Genghis Khan’s tomb.
Wasn’t there a pharaoh that had so much mercury on the site that anyone that tried to dig his grave would get mercury poisoning?
I’m not sure about a pharaoh’s tomb, but there were rivers of mercury in the tomb of the first Emperor of China; also automatic crossbow traps I believe. It’s the tomb with the Terracotta Army. Extremely fascinating.
Technically there have been ruins and tombs with traps and riddles. Take a look at some of the info about the Curse of Tutankhamun’s Tomb alone, including stuff like an anthropologist named Field having his house burn down, then flood after its rebuiling (purportedly because he had accepted a mummified hand as a paperweight which came with a cursed bracelet attached).
Granted, there’s no Myst or Tomb Raider-style tomb puzzles unless you count translations of ancient dialects used by the original architects/artisans/scribes/etc., but a lot of death has been associated with burial sites/tombs, whether or not you attribute them to curses or long-dormant mould being disturbed and breathed in…
The “Curse of Tutankhamun”, are you for real 😂 that’s the dumbest shit right up there with Nostradamus’s propehcies and homeopathy.
You’re aware that you live in reality? As in no Harry Potter wizardry reality?
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There were sealed and fake passages, but I don’t think there were traps.
What about your mom though?
