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POPSMore Beautiful Photography. And this one's a "two-fer", featuring Babak and Oshin together. "Visiting Ayutthaya Park, Thailand" is a magnificent panorama. Click on the link to see it full size.
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POPSGiants Worthy to read: ° Giants in Scripture ° Book of Enoch – new translation ° Book of Enoch ° Epic of Gilgamesh ° Ancient & Lost Civilizations ° Gilgamesh Tomb Found! ° Gog ° Floods Stories from Around the World ° The Book of Giants ° Ancient Egyptian Treasures in Grand Canyon ° The Karankawa ° Lost City of the Grand Canyon
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POPSChapel built on top of lava plug more: In prehistoric times, a dolmen was built on top of the rock, a single-chamber tomb made of three upright stones and a large, flat, horizontal one on top. The Romans dedicated the rock to Mercury, the messenger god with the winged shoes. When the area was Christianised, the rock needle was consecrated to the archangel Saint Michael (Saint Michel).
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POPSBible-Era Mystery Vessel Found more (at source): From the objects that surrounded it, Gibson determined that the cup dated from some time between 37 B.C. and A.D. 70, when the Romans nearly destroyed Jerusalem after a Jewish revolt. Among the dig's other finds are ruins spanning the time of the founding of King Solomon's Temple, around 970 B.C., to the destruction of Jerusalem by Christian crusaders in A.D. 1099.
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POPSRare ancient jewels found cont: A number of offerings including scarabs, amber seals and earthenware were also found in the burial chamber which was two metres high. The town of Eleutherna is believed to have reached its peak in the Geometric Era around 3,000 years ago. Excavation in the last 25 years has so far yielded over 500 items of clay, metal and ivory including sculptures, tools and weapons. One of the most prized sculptures of the Louvre Museum in Paris, a limestone female statue called the Lady of Auxerre, is believed to have come from Eleutherna. -- AFP
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POPSTomb May Hold Answer to How Much Shakespeare Actually Wrote Saunders insists it is worth exploring. “Fulke spent the equivalent of £300,000 today on a marble sarcophagus at St Mary's,” he told the Telegraph. “No man would build something like that and leave it empty. There is definitely something down there and we want to find out what it is.” Were the numerous works, including plays and poems, attributed to William Shakespeare really written by the actor from Stratford-upon-Avon? There have been plenty of scholars convinced otherwise, and candidates other than Greville include Sir Francis Bacon, fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe and others.
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POPSAncient royal tomb found in Scotland
more (at source): But up until now nobody suspected that Forteviot's royal roots might be thousands of years older. The newly discovered prehistoric tomb is of particular importance because it lies at the very heart of Scotland's largest pre-historic ritual/religious ceremonial complex. The excavations are now revealing that back in around 2600 BC, local Neolithic people constructed a giant 250m diameter circle of 200 timber obelisks with a ceremonial processional way leading to its entrance and an inner timber circle at its centre. Each oak obelisk was up to a metre in diameter. Then, by 2400BC, a massive earthwork enclosure with a 10m wide, 3m deep moat was built inside that inner timber circle. At roughly the same time two other similar earthwork enclosures – "henges" – were built, north of the large timber circle. And finally in around 2000BC the tomb was built underground in what was probably the most prestigious location – immediately opposite the entrance to the henge at the
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POPSChina: new warriors at terracotta army site more: Xu said the army officer was found lying on its stomach behind four chariots, and was largely intact compared with other newly-discovered warriors, according to Xinhua. “The original colors have faded after more than 2,000 years of decay, but a corner of the officer's robe suggested it was in colors other than the grey-ish clay,” he said. The latest excavation is the third in the site's largest pit — one of three open to the public — since 1974 when the army of terracotta warriors and horses was discovered by a peasant digging a well. Up to 5,000 more life-size figures are believed to still be buried in the pit and awaiting excavation. The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological finds of modern times, and was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1987.
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POPSItaly Cracks Down On Raiders Of Lost Art The 2,500-year-old Euphronios vase, which depicts a battle scene from the Trojan War, was dug up and illegally taken out of Italy in the 1970s. It was finally returned to Italy in 2008, after it made its way into the collection of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lost Chalice" by Vernon Silver/Wiliam MorrowThe 2,500-year-old Euphronios vase, which depicts a battle scene from the Trojan War, was dug up and illegally taken out of Italy in the 1970s. It was finally returned to Italy in 2008, after it made its way into the collection of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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POPSLegion Of Terra-Cotta Mouseketeers Found Beneath Disney World more (at source): "Very little is known about the early history of the Disney civilization, so this is quite a significant find," said lead archaeologist Dr. Robert Moore, adding that it may take years to fully explore the labyrinthine system of tunnels and pits that surround the burial chamber. "By analyzing the crude markings above the doorway to the tomb, we've concluded that it was likely constructed during the Pre-Eisnerian period, one of the bloodiest and most chaotic eras in the history of the Magic Kingdom."
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POPSSearch for the Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was perhaps the greatest and most ruthless conqueror the world has ever know. More than three million people may have died during the bloody creation of his empire. During his twenty year reign Khan subdued the Russian princes; his army conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Korea, South-East India, Indonesia, and China.
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