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Ancient Stone Circles in Mideast Baffle Archaeologists
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| October 30, 2014 07:49am ET
| Owen Jarus,
Posted on 10/31/2014 10:45:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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10/31/2014 10:45:18 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
Antediluvian civilization ping.
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10/31/2014 10:45:41 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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10/31/2014 10:49:04 AM PDT
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GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: BenLurkin
In addition to the 11 photographed circles, researchers have identified another similar circle in Jordan, which appears to have been only partially completed, Kennedy noted. Old satellite imagery also reveals two circles, one in Jordan and another in Syria, which have both been destroyed. The circle in Syria was destroyed within the last decade and the one in Jordan a few decades ago. A separate research team, from Durham University, investigated the Syria circle before it was completely gone. While there are many smaller stone circles in the Middle East, what makes these 11 Big Circles stand out is their large size and ancient age, Kennedy said. PFL
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10/31/2014 10:52:10 AM PDT
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Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: BenLurkin
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10/31/2014 10:54:57 AM PDT
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camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: BenLurkin
Archaeologists are always baffled.
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10/31/2014 10:56:21 AM PDT
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DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: BenLurkin
The Big Circles (as archaeologists call them) were built with low stone walls that are no more than a few feet high.
Sounds like the foundations for those inflatable domes used for driving ranges. Perhaps they should look for ancient golf balls...
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10/31/2014 11:00:56 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(When do we get to tell the Middle East to stop clinging to their guns and religion?)
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10/31/2014 11:01:03 AM PDT
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: BenLurkin
A fence a few feet high, near “kites” used in slaughter. Water usually nearby. I am not an archaeologist, but I’ll suggest a sheep farm.
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10/31/2014 11:07:58 AM PDT
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DBrow
To: BenLurkin
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10/31/2014 11:11:43 AM PDT
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tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
To: tophat9000
I think Stargate is my favorite franchise of all time. :)
Usually these circles were for some astro-theological purpose. This is probably the same.
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10/31/2014 11:13:06 AM PDT
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DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: BenLurkin
It seems unlikely that they were originally used as corrals, as the walls were no more than a few feet high, the circles contain no structures that would have helped maintain an animal herd
Turtle farms.......
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10/31/2014 11:20:07 AM PDT
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Hot Tabasco
(Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
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10/31/2014 11:27:00 AM PDT
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Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
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10/31/2014 11:47:10 AM PDT
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Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: BenLurkin
Perhaps the area was cleared for plowing and agriculture during a wetter climate cycle.
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10/31/2014 12:20:53 PM PDT
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Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: BenLurkin
Global Warming remediation sites.
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10/31/2014 12:26:48 PM PDT
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Noob1999
(Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
To: BenLurkin
While the article does not say which country the circle is located in, the image on the site shows a nearby river and perhaps the Med in the background.
Likely these were built by the pre-Egyptian dynasty “Libyans” who built similar Megalithic structures as far north as the UK (Stonehenge) - all close to water. Most of those date to around 3,500 BC or shortly after.
These same people are postulated to have been the builders of the Giza complex. However, proving it would mean digging down through hundreds of feet in the north and west of the Nile River Delta, the territory the “Libyans” or Westerners controlled at the time.
I think I read there are some examples of their writing, but there is no way to translate it yet.
Most archeologists would likely say they built most of these structures as a calendar, solar observation points, etc. However, these are just theories. Which may be akin to saying the Giza pyramids were built as Pharaohs tombs ... which are neither tombs nor built by ancient dynastic Egyptians.
The past is not only stranger than we think, but stranger than we can imagine ...
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10/31/2014 12:30:47 PM PDT
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PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
Open air prisons. Break the legs of convicts then throw them over the stone wall. They’ll starve or eat someone before they’re healed.
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10/31/2014 1:26:35 PM PDT
by
Orbiter
To: PIF; Doomonyou
Likely these were built by the pre-Egyptian dynasty Libyans
Even they enjoyed trout fishing......Not likely with Rapala's but the traditional hook and locust.......
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10/31/2014 2:04:43 PM PDT
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Hot Tabasco
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Thanks BenLurkin. Somewhere on FR there are topics about a stone circle in Yemen, another in Saudi Arabia, and one in Somalia (right across from Yemen).
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10/31/2014 2:14:12 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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