What is the one, now lost empire/nation/kingdom/tribe of history, you are most intrigued by? Why does it fascinate you? The one you wish was in existence to this day so that you could perhaps visit it's cities and/or monuments one day?
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sydhe
King of Kongs
The Etruscans, who invented a lot of things we think of as Roman, and have a language we still can't decipher despite them adapting Greek letters. (The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan, which is part of the reason Latin had three "k" sounds.)
Domen
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That sort of looks like if aliens built the stonehenge.. It's unexplainable how the stonehenge was built so primitively.
Stonehenge is just a few big rocks. It was an impressive feat of muscle power to carve them and to get them into position, and it required careful astronomical observations and geometrical measurements to calculate what positions to put them in, but there's really nothing miraculous about that. Neolithic people weren't stupid, they just didn't have our technology.
The really inexplicable thing is why they put it right next to the A303.
The really inexplicable thing is why they put it right next to the A303.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4
This guy can most probably build a stonehenge with no modern tools. Alone, if you give him enough time and a lot of rocks. Tools change, physics don't.
This guy can most probably build a stonehenge with no modern tools. Alone, if you give him enough time and a lot of rocks. Tools change, physics don't.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Well, you can't expect tourists do stray too far off the major roads.
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People also routinely underestimate how complex neolithic societies were. We've seen too many depictions of cave men.
Neolithic Britain had relatively large polities, trade with the rest of Europe, agriculture for 5,000 years etc. It likely didn't look that different from the Roman Era, or even anything up to the industrial revolution, except in terms of the long term durability of their goods, and the absence of a written record.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Indeed. Here about Neolithic Trypillian culture in Ukraine:
http://jomontaro.web.fc2.com/newpage179.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-temple-trypillian-culture-nebelivka-ukraine-02223.html
http://www.trypillian.com/history.php
Link to video.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
^ This culture of course did not speak any of Indo-European languages.
So in the video below it was restricted to non-green area before the 24th second:
Link to video.
So in the video below it was restricted to non-green area before the 24th second:
Link to video.
gay_Aleks
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How do you know A303 isn't put right next to Stonehenge?
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Misico dux Vandalorum
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Oh, c'mon, no human could build a structure like the A303. It was clearly the work of an ancient extra-terrestrial civilisation.
I think the really miraculous thing is the organisation involved - the fact that a society (and perhaps, by implication, an authority) existed at that time capable of mobilising so many people and drawing materials from so wide an area.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Another mystery is why did Neolithic people of Globular Amphora Culture build their sepulchral-ritual place right next to A1 highway in Poland:
http://archeowiesci.pl/2015/02/21/s...wnia-obrzedy-neolitycznych-mieszkancow-kujaw/
Or maybe - just maybe - it was because this archaeological site was actually discovered during the construction of A1 highway ???
http://archeowiesci.pl/2015/02/21/s...wnia-obrzedy-neolitycznych-mieszkancow-kujaw/
Or maybe - just maybe - it was because this archaeological site was actually discovered during the construction of A1 highway ???
I agree with you, dear sir.
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