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Stonehenge 'older than believed'
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10-13-2008 6:25 PM
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stonehenge
invictus
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Say goodbye to "conventional" 2300 BCE date. Every evidence backs the "older" theories which suggested a construction date well before 3000 BCE.
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10-14-2008
12:39 AM
mugofcoffee
wish we shall be alive after 500 years! We shall get to know more 'new discoveries' about this and every other known things to us, showing completely contrast conclusions to what we know of them by now!
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