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.
Hey, thanks! Nice link. Probably make a good FR topic or two.
Hopefully a couple more posts will bounce this one up onto the actives list, since it is the original one. But anyway, here's a link to another one of those articles, related, same author as the one from the unmentionable source. Cryptic? Never, not me.
http://www.lightnet.co.uk/informer/sacredsites/20001126.htm
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