Excavations have exposed a complex rock cut chamber with skulls in it
Posted on 10/31/2010 7:12:56 PM PDT by decimon
Archaeologists on Orkney are investigating what is thought to be a 5,000-year-old tomb complex.
A local man stumbled on the site while using a mechanical digger for landscaping.
It appears to contain a central passageway and multiple chambers excavated from rock.
There is a large neolithic burial complex nearby called The Tomb of the Eagles where over 300 bodies were found.
"Potentially these skeletons could tell us so much about Neolithic people," said Orkney Islands Council archaeologist Julie Gibson.
"Not only in relation to their deaths, but their lives."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
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I didn’t do it.
I don't know what kind of landscaping plan they intended; but having a complex rock cut chamber with skulls in it would be too cool!
very cool...
Wow!
WOW! Let’s go, I’m ready, I want to see it!
Perfect for Halloween.
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'tis the night of the dead arisen.
Very timely for Halloween!
You didn’t do it? It’s got your screen name in the headline... :D
This stuff is very pre-Halloween ~ it’s back contemporaneous with Sumer and the first kingdoms in China even ~ exceedingly ancient. Maybe there’s some DNA in the bones that will tell us WHO these people were.
That should be fairly easy to determine. They should still be on the voter rolls somewhere. The question is - WHERE?
Chicago city hall, and they’re being gone over as we speak.
found a mastadon once, but no neolithic tombs that I can remember.
any stargates???
I think you are correct....
Yeah
but when I went through it I went back in time to before I found it, so I don’t remember.
OK next Halloween.
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