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Complex engineering and metal-work discovered beneath ancient Greek 'pyramid'
Guardian UK ^ | Thursday, January 18, 2018 | Maev Kennedy

Posted on 01/18/2018 2:45:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv

More than 4,000 years ago builders carved out the entire surface of a naturally pyramid-shaped promontory on the Greek island of Keros. They shaped it into terraces covered with 1,000 tonnes of specially imported gleaming white stone to give it the appearance of a giant stepped pyramid rising from the Aegean: the most imposing manmade structure in all the Cyclades archipelago...

Archaeologists from three different countries involved in an ongoing excavation have found evidence of a complex of drainage tunnels -- constructed 1,000 years before the famous indoor plumbing of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete -- and traces of sophisticated metalworking...

Earlier excavations by the team from the University of Cambridge, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the Cyprus Institute have uncovered thousands of marble Cycladic sculptures -- the stylised human figures which inspired western artists, including Pablo Picasso -- and which appear to have been deliberately broken elsewhere and brought to the island for burial.

Maintaining as well as constructing the settlement would have taken a huge communal effort. The now-deserted slopes of Dhaskalio were once covered with structures and buildings, suggesting that 4,500 years ago it was one of the most densely populated parts of the islands -- despite the fact that it could not have been self-sufficient, meaning that most food, like the stone and the ore for metal working, had to be imported...

Excavated soil reveals food traces including pulses, grapes, olives, figs and almonds, and cereals, including wheat and barley. Evi Margaritis of the Cyprus Institute said: "Much of this food was imported: in the light of this evidence we need to reconsider what we know about existing networks to include food exchange."

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aegean; agriculture; almonds; amorgos; ancientnavigation; animalhusbandry; barley; bronzeage; christosdoumas; colinrenfrew; copperage; cyclades; cycladic; daskalio; dhaskalio; dietandcuisine; figs; godsgravesglyphs; grapes; greece; greek; history; kavos; keros; mycenaean; mycenaeans; navigation; naxos; olgaphilaniotou; olives; pulses; syros; wheat
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The promontory of Dhaskalio, rising from the Aegean sea, was once joined to the major sanctuary of Keros. Photograph: Michael Boyd

The promontory of Dhaskalio, rising from the Aegean sea, was once joined to the major sanctuary of Keros. Photograph: Michael Boyd
The entrance staircase from above: the sea level was much lower in the early bronze age Photograph: Michael Boyd

The promontory of Dhaskalio, rising from the Aegean sea, was once joined to the major sanctuary of Keros. Photograph: Michael Boyd
A researcher holds a mould for making a spearhead from molten copper. Photograph: Michael Boyd

A researcher holds a mould for making a spearhead from molten copper. Photograph: Michael Boyd

1 posted on 01/18/2018 2:45:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: Texas Fossil; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; pax_et_bonum; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...
Thanks Texas Fossil. That's the most interesting Greek thing in a while.

2 posted on 01/18/2018 2:46:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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3 posted on 01/18/2018 2:50:01 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

4 posted on 01/18/2018 2:55:37 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

Good find.


5 posted on 01/18/2018 2:55:39 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

But they are supposed to be primitives compared to us Walmart moderns.


6 posted on 01/18/2018 2:57:31 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It was a temple complex like Malta. They were all over the Islands of the Medertainiumn during the Bronze age. If they do enough digging they might find the chambers where they kept the bones of the children they sacrificed to their blood gods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalithic_Temples_of_Malta


7 posted on 01/18/2018 2:59:48 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: blam

Ooh, that worked! Nice! Thanks blam.


8 posted on 01/18/2018 3:00:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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9 posted on 01/18/2018 3:07:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Pelham
"History is seen as a progression from stupid cave men to smart old us with our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste." -- John Anthony West

10 posted on 01/18/2018 3:09:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Antediluvian bump!


11 posted on 01/18/2018 3:18:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: freedumb2003
Obligatory photo of one of The Grays:

alien ufo the grays

12 posted on 01/18/2018 3:21:42 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: SunkenCiv

13 posted on 01/18/2018 4:13:52 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: SunkenCiv

Wait a sec...global warming? Melting icecaps?

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The entrance staircase from above: the sea level was much lower in the early bronze age Photograph: Michael Boyd


14 posted on 01/18/2018 4:26:15 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: JohnyBoy; Pelham

Well there’s one difference between them and Aus Pelham :)

Unless you count abortion :(


15 posted on 01/19/2018 1:58:48 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: SunkenCiv

WE HAVE STRIPED TOOTHPASTE?!?!?!


16 posted on 01/19/2018 1:59:24 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

;’) And striped dental floss. They’re still working on striped waterpik streams.


17 posted on 01/19/2018 2:30:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

lol. We ARE the superior civilization!


18 posted on 01/19/2018 2:40:44 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Wouldn’t an alien’s head have to be much more enormous? Or is their neuron count higher but denser?

I know cats have smaller brains but more neurons than dogs.

Somebody go find an alien and check. :)


19 posted on 01/19/2018 2:42:57 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: 2banana
The Aegean and Greece itself (and some other adjacent landmasses) is slowly dropping in elevation, bunch of different towns, buildings, cemeteries are in the same situation.

20 posted on 01/19/2018 2:43:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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