1 posted on
10/31/2014 10:45:18 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
Antediluvian civilization ping.
2 posted on
10/31/2014 10:45:41 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
3 posted on
10/31/2014 10:49:04 AM PDT by
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
4 posted on
10/31/2014 10:52:10 AM PDT by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: BenLurkin
5 posted on
10/31/2014 10:54:57 AM PDT by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: BenLurkin
Archaeologists are always baffled.
6 posted on
10/31/2014 10:56:21 AM PDT by
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...
7 posted on
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?)
To: BenLurkin
8 posted on
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.
9 posted on
10/31/2014 11:07:58 AM PDT by
DBrow
To: BenLurkin
10 posted on
10/31/2014 11:11:43 AM PDT by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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.......
12 posted on
10/31/2014 11:20:07 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
To: BenLurkin
14 posted on
10/31/2014 11:47:10 AM PDT by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: BenLurkin
Perhaps the area was cleared for plowing and agriculture during a wetter climate cycle.
15 posted on
10/31/2014 12:20:53 PM PDT by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: BenLurkin
Global Warming remediation sites.
16 posted on
10/31/2014 12:26:48 PM PDT by
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 ...
17 posted on
10/31/2014 12:30:47 PM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe they were part of “stone age” people’s version of “circle the wagons” as a form of defensive
structures.
21 posted on
10/31/2014 2:26:49 PM PDT by
Wuli
To: BenLurkin
The answer is obvious. Just as the natives in New Guinea built replicas of airplanes as part of the cargo cult, beseeching the return of the Gods in their flying vehicles with so much in the way of goodies, these huge circles were putative landing sites for the mother ships.
The natives were trying to lure the Ancient Aliens back to Earth.
(Well, its as good a theory as any)
26 posted on
10/31/2014 7:54:10 PM PDT by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
To: BenLurkin
28 posted on
11/02/2014 11:53:58 AM PST by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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