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  • 6,000-Year-Old Temple with Possible Sacrificial Altars Discovered

    11/02/2014 8:37:53 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 16 replies
    LiveScience ^ | October 20, 2014 | Owen Jarus
    A 6,000-year-old temple holding humanlike figurines and sacrificed animal remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine. Built before writing was invented, the temple is about 60 by 20 meters (197 by 66 feet) in size. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms, write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko... Inside the temple, archaeologists found the remains of eight clay platforms, which may have been used as altars, the finds suggested. A platform on the upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of...