Fury as Archaeological Site Ruined and Replaced With Picnic Table

The Local ^ | 26 Aug 2015

[Beagle8U]

The new one looks more practical.

[Little Ray]

Bet no one gets fired over it...

[shalom aleichem]

Meanwhile ISIS is demolishing all the ancient things in Syria and it is a big Ho Hum.

Where is the “fury”? Where is the outrage? Where is the USA?

And the Turks only fly sorties to bomb the valiant Kurds

[x]

¡Ay, caramba!

[NormsRevenge]

Paved paradise. Put up a parking lot..

[PLMerite]

That woman should be in prison.

[PLMerite]

I believe the theory is that there was a mound of earth built over the "chamber" created by the stone slabs.

Six thousand years is long enough for the mound to weather away.

[cpdiii]

You are correct.

[SunkenCiv]

Neolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/uob-nmt012116.php

Neolithic tomb reveals community stayed together, even in death
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/p-ntr011516.php

Neolithic Megalithic Tomb in Spain Comprehensively Examined for the First Time: a Community in Life and Death
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Neolithic-Megalithic-Tomb-in-Spain-Comprehensively-Examined-for-the-First-Time—a-Community-in-Life-and-Death.html

Neolithic tomb reveals community stayed together, even in death
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/neolithic-tomb-reveals-community-stayed-together-even-in-death

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 8/29/2015. Thanks nickcarraway.

[nickcarraway]

This one brings up really good questions about preserving sites.

[SunkenCiv]

It does, and I just missed it at the time, however, we also had a similar topic that pinged, so I may have thought it was the same topic, that happens too. [blush]