Temples Older Than Pyramids Found (In Europe)

BBC ^ | Saturday June 11 2005

[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.

[nickcarraway]

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[technomage]

Very interesting indeed.

[TheOtherOne]

Interesting.

[Frank_Discussion]

Fascinating, even.

[firebrand]

I only got 80 on the quiz. I thought the Egyptians traded in plastics. Unfair!

[tet68]

Long Houses?
Norse?

[Judge Roy]

Well let's see Noah's flood was to have been in 4004 BC so the people died wonder from what.

[sumocide]

Source for the above ist http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=645976

[MaryFromMichigan]

Very fascinating and interesting.

[sumocide]

That's a number some scholars come up with for Adam, not Noah.

[Verginius Rufus]

4004 B.C. was Bishop Ussher's calculation for the date of the creation of the world, not for the Flood.

[rawcatslyentist]

Your tag line "IS" disgusting. But humorously TRUE.

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[DocRock]

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[rawcatslyentist]

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[JasonC]

No, way way before that. But there is evidence the earliest barrow builders in Britain lived in longhouses, a millenium before stonehenge.

[Mamzelle]

re: The multiple bank, ditch and palisade systems "protecting" the inner space seem not to have been built for defensive purposes - and were instead probably designed to prevent ordinary tribespeople from seeing the sacred and presumably secret rituals which were performed in the "inner sanctum" )))

What conclusions to draw from such scanty evidence. Whether it's cosmology, archeology, paleontology...any time you have an unaccountable science, you get capricious drawing of unjustified conclusions.

[Fiddlstix]

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