Spanish Stonehenge revealed: 5,000-year-old megalithic temple

Daily Mail ^ | 23 August 2019 | Joe Pinkstone

[rdl6989]

A 5,000-year-old monument has reappeared in Spain after being submerged at the bottom of a reservoir for 50 years.

The megalithic site features 144 granite blocks which stand more than six-foot tall and has been dubbed 'Spanish Stonehenge'.

Its similarity to the UNESCO World heritage site in Wiltshire is striking, but the Iberian version is made of smaller rocks.

It was thought to be condemned to the history books in the 1960s when a Spanish general ordered the construction of a hydroelectric dam in Peraleda de la Mata, near Cáceres in Extremadura.

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Full title

Spanish Stonehenge revealed: 5,000-year-old megalithic temple is exposed at the bottom of a barren reservoir after more than 50 years underwater

[rdl6989]

Ping

[Big Red Badger]

“Oh Brother,
Where Art Thou?”
.
Comes to mind.

[BenLurkin]

[DoodleBob]

There are rules.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” . Comes to mind.

Penny : Well, we need that ring.
Ulysses : Well that ring is at the bottom of a pretty durn big lake.
Penny : Uh-uh.
Ulysses : A 9,000 hectare lake.
Penny : I don't care if it's 90,000...
Ulysses : But honey...
Penny : That lake was not my doing.
Ulysses : Of course not honey...
Penny : I counted to three, honey.
Ulysses : No, wait, honey! Finding one little ring in the middle of all that water is one hell of a heroic task!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good find! I didn’t realize they were that widespread that early.

Thank you.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Melesian dynasty

[Robert A Cook PE]

The sunkeniv deserves the moniker for this one!

Well, now is the time to complete a 360 degree, full-scale laser scan of every stone. It will not disturb any stone, and will allow complete re-study and examination at leisure later - even when the lake has refilled.

By the way, granite is NOT subject to “erosion”, nor is it affected when submerged in “stagnant water” as in a freshwater lake. The author is repeating exaggerated claims by “someone” connected to the site.

Compared to the deliberate vandalism and incidental wear by tens of thousands of visitors on an open air site? These stones are far, far safer underwater than on the surface exposed to the “care” that deliberately destroyed ancient cities and temples in Turkey, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

[Boogieman]

Seems like that graphic needs to be updated. There are megalithic structures also in Asia Minor, the Levant, the Canary Islands, and in the Americas as well.

[Big Red Badger]

“What’s ya Ridin’
There ,Tommy?”
.
“A RollTop Desk!”

[SunkenCiv]

Here are the other GGG topics introduced the past couple of weeks (I forgot to last week).

• A Stone Age boat building site has been discovered underwater
• Nordic Bronze Age attracted wide variety of migrants to Denmark
• New light on contested identity of medieval skeleton found at Prague Castle
• Rise of dinosaurs linked to increasing oxygen levels
• Mysterious deep-sea shark that's older than the dinosaurs captured on film
• Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya
• Ancient feces reveal how 'marsh diet' left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites
• The 1519 Project: How Early Spanish Explorers Took Down A Mass-Murdering Indigenous Cult
• Invisible ink on antique Nile papyrus revealed by multiple methods
• America great? "It is the BEST form of government which has EVER been offered to the world" (TR)
• Archaeological discovery: Researchers find evidence of Babylonian conquest
• Humans migrated to Mongolia much earlier than previously believed
• Neanderthals fished more frequently than previously thought, study says
• Ancient Turkic stamp, statues discovered in Mongolia
• Revealed: 14,000-year-old village 'older than Egyptian pyramids' sheds light on how [tr] [2017]
• A student found an ancient Canadian village that's 10,000 years older than the Pyramids
• The Mystery of Curry
• Greenland Had No Ice For 280,000 Years 1.1 Million Years Ago, And Could Go That Way Again [2016]
• Debunking The "Vikings Weren't Victims Of Climate" Myth [Greenland and Historical Realities] [2016]
• Pagans celebrate winter solstice on the wrong day [2009]
• Druids
• The Unconquerable Ricimer Dies ~ August 18, AD 472
• Where is the grave of Revolutionary War hero Captain Margaret Corbin?
• ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND AN AZTEC SKULL RACK THAT ONCE HELD TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HUMAN HEADS
• Has the Biblical Moses Been Identified in Secular Egyptian Records
• Pompeii archaeologists uncover 'sorcerer's treasure trove'
• Why Do Humans Grunt When They Bend Over? Science Weighs In
• The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
• Archaeological discovery attests to Babylonian conquest of J'lem
• Freedom Speaks Hurrian: A Cuneiform Song of Liberation
• Greek Farmer Accidentally Discovers 3,400-Year-Old Minoan Tomb Hidden Under Olive Grove

[a fool in paradise]

Pi?

[Ezekiel]

Time for a sequel!

[Pelham]

This is Spinal Tap - Stonehenge scene

[colorado tanker]

My first visit to Stonehenge you could actually walk among the stones and touch them. Even with today’s restrictions, it’s well worth a visit.

[Oatka]

Time for a sequel!

[BradyLS]

“In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, there lived a strange race of people: the Druids. No one knows who they were...or...wot they were doin’... But. Their legacy remains. HEWN...into the living ROCK...of Stone’enge...

[WVNan]

Amarillo by morning~~~~~~

[SunkenCiv]

The Who -- Long Live Rock