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Temples Older Than Pyramids Found (In Europe)
BBC ^ | Saturday June 11 2005

Posted on 06/11/2005 12:54:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A series of temples thought to be older than Stonehenge or the Pyramids have been uncovered by a team of archaeologists working in Europe. More than 150 monuments built between 4,800 BC and 4,600 BC have been found beneath the fields of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia.

They are thought to represent Europe's oldest civilisation.

The discoveries are so new that this temple building culture does not even have a name, The Independent reports.

Click here to try our ancient civilisations quiz The temples were made of earth and wood, with the buildings stretching for up to half a mile. It's thought that they were built by a religious community who lived together in "longhouses" up to 50m long.

Evidence of these buildings has been found across a 400-mile stretch of land, but it seems the civilisation died out after about 200 years.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archaeology; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history
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To: Calvin Locke; blam

The Ries Basin impact was about 15 million years ago, if memory serves.


41 posted on 06/12/2005 7:43:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: blam
If the Black Sea flood can be proven to be Noah's Flood, that was in 5600BC.

And that's a Big If. ;')
42 posted on 06/12/2005 7:45:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, then that's a bit out of the ball park...never mind.


43 posted on 06/12/2005 7:46:21 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: P.O.E.

I prefer the Dirt Culture. Iron Age, Bronze Age, Stone Age, Dirt Age.


44 posted on 06/12/2005 7:47:33 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: tet68

That's my first thought too, tet68.


45 posted on 06/12/2005 9:13:17 PM PDT by meema
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To: sumocide

Thanks for the hotlink, sumocide. I printed it out to study. Love this kind of 'stuff'.


46 posted on 06/12/2005 9:15:44 PM PDT by meema
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To: Calvin Locke

A little bit out, yeah. :')

"That ball wouldn't have been out of a lot of parks."

"Name one."

"Yellowstone."


47 posted on 06/13/2005 12:42:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
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)

48 posted on 06/13/2005 10:31:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: Abathar

LOL


49 posted on 06/13/2005 11:35:49 PM PDT by wafflehouse (the hell you say!)
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To: nickcarraway
Very interesting. Me thinks they were built by late Cro-Magnon Druids high on mead, but who I am to say ?
50 posted on 06/13/2005 11:38:17 PM PDT by Red Sea Swimmer (Tisha5765Bav)
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keys david Europe's oldest civilisation
Google

51 posted on 06/13/2005 11:57:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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To: nickcarraway
There is information out there that some of the buildings in Egypt are over 10,000 years old.
52 posted on 06/14/2005 6:21:12 AM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry & Democrats; supported, financed, trained, guided, revered, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: nickcarraway

"The temples were made of earth and wood, with the buildings stretching for up to half a mile. It's thought that they were built by a religious community who lived together in "longhouses" up to 50m long."

Sounds like Norsemen - bet they went further north when Global Warming started ...


53 posted on 06/14/2005 6:23:46 AM PDT by RS (Just because they are out to get him, it doesn't mean he's not guilty.)
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To: nickcarraway
monuments built between 4,800 BC and 4,600 BC have been found beneath the fields of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia...The discoveries are so new that this temple building culture does not even have a name

The Third Reich B.C.?

54 posted on 06/14/2005 6:25:55 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: nickcarraway

55 posted on 06/14/2005 6:32:43 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: blam

Black Sea flood ?


56 posted on 06/14/2005 6:34:35 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Mamzelle
digging and refilling trenches as ritualistic?

Maybe a Army basic training ritual?
DIs say, "Dig a fighting position over there. Ok, fill in in, and dig one over there."

57 posted on 06/14/2005 9:19:24 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: ASA Vet

LOL! Makes a lot more sense than the theories posed in this article...


58 posted on 06/14/2005 10:18:30 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: nickcarraway
but it seems the civilisation died out after about 200 years

And it's now been proven (by the traces of lavender pastel paint) that they were gay. They are now proud democrat voters < /sarc>

59 posted on 06/14/2005 10:31:17 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: SunkenCiv

There is some pretty old stuff here...

http://www.lessing4.de/megaliths/start.htm


60 posted on 06/14/2005 7:39:11 PM PDT by sonofron
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