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A pair of small standing stones beside the Wren's Egg, a glacial erratic, aligned to the Midwinter Sunset, in the Machars of Galloway.
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𝗡𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘇𝗮𝗿'𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗭𝗶𝗴𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝘀𝗵
Wonderful words revealed from ancient Mesopotamia! Two ancient clay cylinders reveal Nebuchadnezzar II's restoration of the Kish ziggurat, providing the first written documentation of the Babylonian king's devotion to the war gods Zababa and Ishtar. These 2,600-year-old inscriptions confirm what archaeologists had only suspected from stamped bricks.
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𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝟯,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁
After 3,000 years underground, Scotland's Peebles Hoard is revealing a stunning secret - a technical marvel of silvery Bronze Age artifacts created in an era when silver was unknown.
#AncientOrigins #ancienttechnology #AncientHistory #AncientArtifacts
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𝗜𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗻 "𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀" 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
New research adds evidence to the theory Peru's mysterious Monte Sierpe "Band of Holes" was an Indigenous marketplace and later Inca accounting system, mirroring khipu patterns in a mile-long landscape monument.
#AncientHistory #AncientOrigins
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#Rameses II colossus, seated figure, Egyptian #pharaoh, Abu Simbel #Egypt

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