is there a void in history?

by Legal_Balance_4040

In the anime "One Piece" they mention a void in history, meaning that they don't know what happened in that period of time. Is there anything similar in our history?

voyeur324

Read Silence in the Sources: History at the Margins from the subreddit's Monday Methods series.

See also what /u/commiespaceinvader has written about why historians will never know everything

/u/mimicofmodes has previously answered How do we study things like common women's fashion in the past when things like dresses and clothes are so often destroyed or lost?