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1 posted on 12/28/2017 7:06:28 PM PST by mairdie
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1,900 years old but so pristine it could have been carved just yesterday: Breathtaking Roman sculpture of eagle devouring a serpent is plucked from the London earth


2 posted on 12/28/2017 7:07:55 PM PST by mairdie
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'Someone digs up an ancient relic every day in Britain': TV historian Bettany Hughes on our very own treasure island




3 posted on 12/28/2017 7:10:41 PM PST by mairdie
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How do they know it was designed as a “Toy”?


4 posted on 12/28/2017 7:11:33 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 ( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
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Hoard of weapons and treasures found in 2,000-year-old Russian mountain grave where ancient warrior was buried




6 posted on 12/28/2017 7:12:31 PM PST by mairdie
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Unearthed: The 2,400-year-old terracotta baby bottle shaped like a PIG


8 posted on 12/28/2017 7:14:16 PM PST by mairdie
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PING


9 posted on 12/28/2017 7:15:18 PM PST by mairdie
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Looks kind of like the guy in the painting “The Scream” - after he calmed down.


10 posted on 12/28/2017 7:16:12 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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Looks somewhat Inuit to me.


11 posted on 12/28/2017 7:16:13 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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Another plaything, a mythical dragon-like animal head, made from antler or horn,

Yeah, maybe, or a crude horse's head.

16 posted on 12/28/2017 7:24:27 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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The top one looks like a ‘Grey’. The second looks like it might be a dinosaur.


23 posted on 12/28/2017 7:37:59 PM PST by PAR35
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10,000 years from now, someone will dig up a Batman action figure and wonder what it meant to us.


27 posted on 12/28/2017 7:49:34 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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30 posted on 12/28/2017 7:58:14 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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That dragon looks like a Pictish Beasie to me.
35 posted on 12/28/2017 8:19:21 PM PST by Beowulf9
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Kid went to Easter Island and all he got was this lousy trinket.


37 posted on 12/28/2017 8:30:38 PM PST by TChad
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“...almond-shaped eyes...!”

The presumptuous morons should try carving something in stone to see if they can do it another way.


42 posted on 12/28/2017 9:45:22 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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"Another plaything, a mythical dragon-like animal head,..."

Those knuckleheads don't know a horse, when they see one, either.


43 posted on 12/28/2017 9:48:14 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Not saying that what it is, but it resembles a chess piece.


62 posted on 10/18/2019 6:49:41 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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