Howdy History Hunters,
Competition, or no competition, it really doesn't matter one way or the other to me. I can't for the life of me understand why the Administrator would call a halt to the competition less than one week into it, I guess it is not for me to understand. It is my understanding that I was not the only one in the middle of writing an entry for the competition. I don't know how the rest of you feel, but I'm going to post what I wrote, and I hope you will do the same. I think it will be interesting to see what everybody believed was the greatest lost treasure that is still lost. As far as I'm concerned, everyone who posts, will be a winner. If you were going to post, or were thinking of posting, please do.
�The greatest lost treasure that was known to exist, and is still lost�
I stand in awe, and tip my hat to the Administrator for putting such a great question before us. I never stopped to contemplate the question before, but once I did it made my head spin. What truly constitutes a great treasure in ones own mind? I have no doubt that it is different for each and every person. I kept finding myself transfixed on the abstract, rather than the material. I felt that lost knowledge should surely constitute a lost treasure. Just how did the Egyptians or the Inca's move 200 ton boulders over long distances, and then set them in place without mortar, and with such precision that one can not fit a piece of paper between the blocks? I know there are a lot of theories as to how it was done, but nobody knows for sure. What about the bronze Greek device constructed in around 80 BC., which could be the world's oldest computer. Surely if that knowledge wouldn�t have been lost in a shipwreck, we could be living in a completely different world today. To think of the knowledge that was lost when the great library of Alexandria burnt, which is a lost treasure that will remain lost. Surely the great knowledge that once existed and was lost, is no doubt a great lost treasure that is still lost. Abstractly speaking that is.
So just what in my mind constitutes the greatest treasure that ever existed, and is still lost today? For me there is only one thing it could possibly be, and that one thing is the Arc of the Covenant. Not for the fact that it is made with gold, or for the claim that it had the power to kill, but for the most incredible claim that it had the power to communicate directly with God!
What treasure could possibly be greater than that?
Sincerely,
Wopper
