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.
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 your inline assembly is being rendered as ancient glyphs, please change your font.
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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.
For fun, here’s a link to the 10,000-year clock, built by The Long Now Foundation. The level of modern engineering, and planning, that it takes to build a clock that will operate for 10,000 years is fascinating. When you stop to think about, say, the trope of a mechanism that will slide back a 20-ton rock door reliably after 2,000 years is quite ridiculous.
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Be the change you wish to see in the world
Step 1. Have money.
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.
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There were sealed and fake passages, but I don’t think there were traps.
That we know of.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a modern day person that buried their fortune with them under puzzles and traps.
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.
That’s what shell companies are for. Legally burry who owns the assets
Would that make lawyers modern day archeologists?
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.
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.
