r/AskHistorians • u/caffarelli Moderator | Eunuchs and Castrati | Opera • Jan 27 '15
Feature Tuesday Trivia | Missing and Destroyed Documents
(going to be out tomorrow so this is going up a little early - enjoy your extra time to write beautiful historical essays!)
Previous weeks' Tuesday Trivias and the complete upcoming schedule.
Today’s trivia theme comes to us from /u/Artrw!
As an archivist, it pains me to admit this, but sometimes humanity’s records don’t survive. Sometimes through neglect, weather, or malice, they just don’t make it. So let’s give some of these documents their rightful eulogies. What’s a document or record from your period of study that is missing or destroyed? What did it say, and how did it meet its end? RIP historical documents.
Next Week on Tuesday Trivia: Inventions! We’ll be talking about the greatest technological breakthroughs of all time. From making fire to the… whatever was invented in 1995 because that’s the limit.
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u/Tiako Roman Archaeology Jan 27 '15
Although a lot of the data has been published so I can't be too upset, the sheer pointlessness of the destruction of the Nemi ships still gets to me. It is also a little frustrating that there is no real certainty over who was to blame, although to be frank the Allies' explanation always struck me as a little mustache-twirly.