Posted on 06/07/2016 1:28:01 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Off the coast of the Greek island Zakynthos, an ancient “lost city” was discovered beneath the surface. There were paved floors, courtyards, column bases. But there was something strange about it: no one could find any of the artifacts that typically come with the ruins of a city—pottery, coins, things that indicates people lived there.
So, in what sounds like it could possibly be a diss to the ancient Greeks, the archaeologists first tried to decide whether the structure was Hellenic stonework. Turns out, the ruins were indeed ancient, but not made by humans. Instead, this “lost city” was created by microbes.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
Call me weird but I personally love microbes.
They must have lived fascinating lives.
No gods, no graves, and no glyphs. Still interesting.
Columns? Streets? I live in a house that is over 100 years old, and had not been occupied since the 1930’s. I promise you, I have been from one end of the adjacent property to the other with a metal detector and haven’t found the first coin, tool, or man-made metal object. But, I promise you, “microbes” didn’t build that house.
Sometimes i wonder if they make up thid sorta thing to hide our own history from us.....
What are the layouts of the stones? Were the microbes city planners too.... i smell they found one or two microbe structures and wrote it all off.
Ping to Greek microbes!
University of East Anglia, huh? Well, they certainly have a history of making up stuff.
Of course these microbes were!! They were from an incredibly advanced civilization, light years across the universe. Sent here in their micro-spaceship to infect life on this planet with special genes that would lead to intelligent life.
Geeesh....you didn't KNOW that? <^..^>
“This is one of the out-of-the-way places, the unvisited places, bleak, wasted, dying.
“This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, a house untouched by progress.
“This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who’s been alone for many years, a strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat, a woman about to face terror, which is even now coming at her from - The Twilight Zone.”
Paging Agnes Moorehead; paging Agnes Moorehead; Agnes Moorehead, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
Just one word. Nanomachines.
Those ancient Greeks. Even their microbes were elegant.
Go on.... go on.....
CNN reports that this “finding” is from the Marine and Petroleum Geology journal.
In other words, somebody may have found natural gas or oil and wants to drill there, but couldn’t because of the potential archaeological value. Declare that “germs did it” and TADAAA! you can now drill there.
‘The Invaders’, Twilight Zone episode 51, original air date January 27, 1961, starring Agnes Moorehead and written by Richard Matheson - available for rental at your local library.
Thanks Pollster1.
I live an almost 300 year old blacksmith’s log house.
After the first day of digging up a bazillion rusty nails, horse shoes and bits of chain, I gave up metal detecting.
:D
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