The obelisks mark the graves of Axum's ancient rulers
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2 posted on
04/26/2005 8:16:38 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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4 posted on
04/26/2005 8:19:49 PM PDT by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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Ya just never know what you're gonna find " under a 1963 car park"
5 posted on
04/26/2005 8:21:32 PM PDT by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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7 posted on
04/26/2005 8:24:38 PM PDT by
rdl6989
(If it drives the left into fits, its a good thing.)
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I spent several days in Axum some years ago on a trip to the Blue Nile Falls at Gondar. The whole area was just bizarre. I rode on roads that the Egytians built that couldn't be built today with the machinery that we have. The Queen of Sheba's bath tub was really wild. The old churches that had been built by the Copt's and the Portugese were just amazing. The obolisk's were all over. There were 60- 70 in the town as I remember. The big ones had been destroyed or removed. The amazing thing was that most of the obolisks were single stone pieces that were from a quarry about a 150 miles away and they were carried over the mountains by primative people as single, intact pieces of stone. We couldn't do that today in that part of the world. A really strange place to visit with a history that is unbelievable.
8 posted on
04/26/2005 8:39:59 PM PDT by
wouldilie
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10 posted on
04/26/2005 8:42:44 PM PDT by
blam
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"under a 1963 car park,"
Shades of Cadillac ranch.
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Flown to Italy.... And it was within the past month that Italy could not return a stone? Hmmmm
12 posted on
04/26/2005 9:18:21 PM PDT by
Jumper
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Thanks for the pings, rdl6989 and Blam. Thanks Nick for the topic (and various others I've neglected to thank you for). Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
13 posted on
04/26/2005 9:56:32 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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14 posted on
04/27/2005 4:24:52 AM PDT by
Dustbunny
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