Mysteries of the Ancient World!

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Strange Matters we delve deep into the past and discuss two mysteries that have gone unsolved for ages. First Eric presents the bizarre phenomenon of the Ever-Burning Lamps. These strange lights have appeared in multiple places and times in history, and are claimed to be able to burn for centuries. Though there is no physical evidence of a working lamp, there are many written records of such devices. Are they some form of magic or supernatural ability, or are they a precursor of advanced scientific instruments?

Next Sean discusses the disastrous and apocalyptic event that is known as the Late Bronze Age Collapse. Suddenly and violently, the high empires and nations of the Bronze Age completely collapsed without warning, every major city in the Mediterranean area left in ruins. This is considered by many historians to be the worst societal and technological collapse in human history. Just what caused so many advanced civilizations to fall into oblivion at nearly the same time? Listen to our episode and decide which theory you think is most likely!
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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello and welcome to another episode of the Strange Matters
0:28.7	podcast. Here are Strange Matters we discuss anything just outside the norm.
0:33.0	This is your host for tonight, Eric and Sean.
0:37.0	And tonight we are going to be discussing ancient mysteries.
0:40.0	That's right. This is our first recording of the new year.
0:44.0	Yeah, thanks to everybody's, all our listeners support.
0:48.4	This podcast has really taken off, getting off to a roaring start.
0:51.6	All right, so today's episode we're talking about a couple of ancient mysteries.
0:56.0	If you listen to some of our episodes, you know that we're a pretty big fan of anything unsolved or unusual,
1:02.0	even more stuff is ancient because that means that this has been puzzling people for centuries.
1:07.0	So yeah, we have two pretty interesting ancient mysteries, and Eric has our first one today, so take it away.
1:12.0	Yeah, so my ancient mystery is something you all may have heard of.
1:17.0	It's the ever burning lamps and this is a mystery of science and history.
1:22.0	And basically these are lights that have been found in
1:25.2	caves and tombs inexplicably burning for centuries without any noticeable
1:31.0	source of fuel.
1:33.0	To give you a little background, this is a strange phenomenon that has been recorded at multiple
1:37.1	different locations in the world at multiple different times before Christ and even AD. Areas including India, China, North America, Egypt, Italy, Ireland, many other countries.
1:52.0	So earlier accounts about these ever-burning lamps from one such account from Plutarch in his
2:01.4	writings de de facto oraculorum. Describe a lamp that burned over the door of the
2:06.9	temple of Jupiter Ammon in Egypt. The priests of the temple of Jupiter believed that the lamp stood in the open air and neither winds nor rain put it out.
2:17.0	St. Augustine described an Egyptian temple dedicated to the goddess Venus, which contained a lamp which could not be extinguished.
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