History Rarely Gives Us a Perfect Ending
Some of these mysteries may eventually be solved. Archaeologists could discover another Phaistos inscription. Searchers could locate Amelia Earhart’s airplane. New DNA testing might clarify the fate of the Princes in the Tower. A newly excavated settlement could reveal more about the people who left Roanoke.
Other answers may be permanently lost.
But that uncertainty is part of what makes history interesting. The past is not a completed story handed down to us intact. It is a collection of documents, ruins, artifacts, memories, and clues, and sometimes the final piece of the puzzle simply isn’t there.
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