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Carrowkeel Cairn K
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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Thursday, 26 January 2012 (3020 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  Chambered Cairn in Co. Sligo. Approached via a tarred track leading E from a by-road running from North to South through the hills, and well-signposted this megalithic cemetery is superbly situated on limestone ridges in different townlands, of which Carrowkeel is only one.
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| 100 years on, and presumably just out of copyright, Martin Byrne has republished Macalister's 1911 excavation report on Carrowkeel
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Town Creek Indian Mound
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (125 reads)
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Museums  Town Creek Indian Mound is a National Historic Landmark near Mount Gilead, Montgomery County, North Carolina. The site preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee, a group of Mississippian mound building people that thrived in the Pee Dee region of North and South Carolina during the Pre-Columbian era from about 1100 to 1400 CE.
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Son Real Necropolis
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Submitted by ShropshireTraveller on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (6994 reads)
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Spain and Portugal  The necropolis of Son Real is located in the Mallorcan town of Santa Margarita on the small headland of Punta Fenicis. The 800-square-foot necropolis dates from the 7th to 4th Century BC, but was also later used as a burial place. Archaeological excavations at the site began after the site's discovery in 1957 and continued until 1970.
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Nakovana Cave
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (189 reads)
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Digs  A cave in Croatia which contains the undisturbed remains of an ancient Illyrian cult sanctuary dating from the 1st millennium B.C. This unprecedented discovery was made in a newly discovered chamber within the Nakovana Cave and revealed an astonishing phallic stalagmite surrounded by ritual artifacts.
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| Oldest known astrologer's board discovered in Dalmatia
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Skellig Michael
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Submitted by jeffrep on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (2596 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  Early Christian Sculptured Stones (and lots more) in Co. Kerry. For 600 years, Skellig Michael (Sceilig Mhichíl in Irish Gaelic, meaning Michael's rock) was an important center of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. An Irish Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of the 755 foot high rock, was built beginning in the 7th Century. Legend associates its founding with St. Fionan.
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| Watch the RTÉ Television Documentary: Secrets Of The Stones
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Valley of the Kings
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (6295 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Necropolis on West Bank of Nile at Luxor. A valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the kings and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis.
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| Egyptian singer unearthed in Valley of the Kings
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Mnajdra and Hagar-Qim, a Maltese Treasure
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Submitted by LittleEnki on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (119 reads)
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Mysteries  Recently, while corresponding with a colleague from The West coast, I was introduced to the wonders of the Maltese megalithic sites of Hagar-Qim and Mnajdra. They are not very well known to the average student of civilization studies, well not in the US, but when observed closer, one sees a wondrous treasure trove of technology and spiritual design.
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Sibudu Cave
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (6339 reads)
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Digs  Cave in South Africa. Sibudu Cave is a sandstone cliff cave in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is an important Middle Stone Age site.. In it evidence has been found of some of the earliest modern human technology including the earliest bone arrow, needle, and use of heat treated mixed compound gluing.
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| "... Parents, children, grannies, and all sorts of people using the same bed." 70,000 year old mattress.
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El Mirador
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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 23 January 2012 (8979 reads)
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Central America  Ancient City in Pete'n Guatemala.
El Mirador "the Lookout" was one of the largest city states of the Mayan world. Covering ten square miles it had an estimated maximum population of 80,000. The polity was at its height from 300BC to 100AD, although evidence from excavations indicate the area was occupied much earlier and was only abandoned at around 900 AD.
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| Global Heritage Fund naming 2012 'Year of the Maya' - Celebrating at El Mirador, see latest comment.
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National Maritime Museum, Cornwall
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 22 January 2012 (279 reads)
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England  Museum in Cornwall. Interactive and 'hands-on' displays featuring Cornwall's unique maritime heritage.
Underwater views through tidal windows. Live boating demonstrations
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| Academics to build replica of Bronze Age boat using tools and methods from 4000 years ago
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Parthenon
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 21 January 2012 (2357 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Classic 5th century BCE Doric marble Temple of Athena which replaced an earlier temple destroyed during the Persian invasion in 480 BCE. The new temple represented the highpoint of Greek architecture. Inside there was a giant Gold and ivory statue of Athena by Phidias. The statue was however moved to Constantinople during the Byzantine era and was lost.
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| Greece's ancient sites to play starring role in economic recovery
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Book Review: Redhead by Ian Cook
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Submitted by Esgt on Saturday, 21 January 2012 (314 reads)
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Reviews  This story is woven around the worldwide folklore of red-hairedness and linked into ancient histories. It begins in North Africa in the 1920s when the desecration of a shrine reignited an ancient vendetta against the red-haired. Wind forward to the present, and there are world-wide incidences of murder and kidnapping taking place.
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Matarrubilla
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Submitted by MMG on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 (2718 reads)
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Spain and Portugal  A passage grave consisting of a corridor of about 29 meters long, connected to a circular section of 2.72 m. in diameter. The corridor is lined with alternating layers of stone and earth, covered with limestone slabs and measures approximately 1.30 m. wide and 2 m tall.
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| Economic crisis saves Spanish ruins but buries their future
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The Armitt
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 (300 reads)
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England  Museum in Cumbria, it includes Neolithic, Bronze Age and Roman material collected in and around Ambleside.
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| Bronze Age swords set to return to Lake District
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Mount Sadahurip
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 (632 reads)
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Alternative Archaeology  Pyramid shaped hill near Cicapar Sand Village, Garut, West Java. Possible man made pyramid structure. Mount Sadahurip, dubbed the "Garut Pyramid," has been undergoing verification tests by the Ancient Catastrophic Disaster Team to see if the mount is indeed a man-made (or partially man-made) structure.
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Tilquhillie Stone Circle (Remains)
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Submitted by hamilton on Monday, 16 January 2012 (3924 reads)
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Scotland  The RCAHMS book Great Crowns of Stone makes a strong case for the stone circle in the fields close to Tilquhillie Castle having been a recumbent type stone circle. The photos show the likely recumbent stone now resting, discarded, on a consumption dyke between the two fields to the SE of Tilquhillie castle.
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Windrush Camp
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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Sunday, 15 January 2012 (3228 reads)
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England  Hillfort in Gloucestershire. A very tidy univallate Iron Age Hillfort just south of the lovely village of Windrush with views to the South as far as White Horse Hill and Barbury Castle on the Marlborough Downs.
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Bergeons
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 15 January 2012 (1590 reads)
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France  Les Bergeons is the name given to one of the many sets of Alignements de Lampouy at Le Chenot near Medreac. Eight menhirs, only one of which is still standing 2.5 metres tall, make up a line, 43 metres in length.
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Kalula cromlech
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Submitted by theCaptain on Saturday, 14 January 2012 (480 reads)
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 A very nice cromlech, with 16 stones still standing, some 3 m high, at Kalula, close to the village of Asoda Sharif, Swabi District, Khyber Pashtunkwa, Northern Pakistan. Apparently there are more around Peshawar region. Details below from ammanamba.
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| Pictures and details of this fascinating stone circle in northern Pakistan have been sent to the Megalithic Portal from ammanamba. Many thanks.
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