1,300-year-old structure could be a fortress, summer palace, monastery, or even an astronomical observatory. Picture: gdehorosho.ru
1 posted on
11/15/2014 4:35:03 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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3 posted on
11/15/2014 4:36:48 PM PST by
Tailback
To: SunkenCiv
We’ll probably learn more about this site, now that Russia is getting back in business in defending its allies. The days of bombing Serbian kindergartens and civilian bridges, without pushback, are about over for us.
4 posted on
11/15/2014 4:55:21 PM PST by
BobL
(Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
To: SunkenCiv
7 posted on
11/15/2014 5:15:56 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: SunkenCiv
Based on some of the pictures at the link...maybe it wasn’t a fortress, but a prison or exile location.
8 posted on
11/15/2014 5:31:24 PM PST by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: SunkenCiv
Tang ...... did they find any tang ?
9 posted on
11/15/2014 5:44:34 PM PST by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: SunkenCiv
Playing with the numbers we come up with 86-87 acres which makes it a tad larger than Fort Courage.
15 posted on
11/15/2014 7:38:41 PM PST by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
To: SunkenCiv
...but some time after the abandonment there was another catastrophic earthquake which led to fires...I can't think of a reason that earthquakes would lead to fires in an abandoned structure.
16 posted on
11/15/2014 9:25:44 PM PST by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: SunkenCiv
That figure 8 structure repeats in almost every room. Those must be of some significance. I would suspect that investigating what is left in the bottom of the inside of the 8s would give a pretty clear picture of what was going on there.
17 posted on
11/15/2014 9:53:51 PM PST by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: SunkenCiv
20 posted on
11/16/2014 4:17:57 AM PST by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: SunkenCiv
Weren’t some monks responsible for high mountain rescues with their brandy & trained St.Bernard dogs? Maybe the same type of operations out in the boonies.
Just an uneducated theory.
24 posted on
11/16/2014 12:30:27 PM PST by
BigIsleGal
(Wake Me Up When the Stupid Wears Off)
To: SunkenCiv
The lack of an obvious heating system is a real problem and from the photos I don't see any trees on the shore. It is located in Tuva where the average daily
high is something like 10 below zero in January. So, whatever it was it must have been seasonal.
At the time the Tuvans were under the control of the Uighur Khanate, but forts were rarely occupied seasonally.
The Tuvans are Buddhist, so it might have been a monastery. Many young men in Buddhist countries live with monks for a time before setting out in secular life. A warm season camp for them?
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