Ancient History is so rad!

[McParadigm]

Which stage is China in?

[simple schoolboy]

Newish claim that Sea People were just early Greeks. Not satisfying.

[BurtReynolds]

Newish claim that Sea People were just early Greeks. Not satisfying.

That kinda fits with something I read a few months ago. Early Greeks came out of the steppes and wrecked shit. I don't think they were particularly good seafarers at first though.

[dimejinky99]

Newgrange. 5200 years old. A star chart passage tomb that lines up perfectly with the sunrise on winter solstice. Older By far than Stonehenge and the pyramids. Nobody knows how.





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

[96583UP]

Newgrange. 5200 years old. A star chart passage tomb that lines up perfectly with the sunrise on winter solstice. Older By far than Stonehenge and the pyramids. Nobody knows how.





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange

Nice!

I wonder how different the human brain was 5,000 years ago. I want to say 'not that different' when I see stuff like this. It's just we didnt have the tools of previous generations to 'stand on' . We build skyscrapers and spaceships today. But if we were out there in 'the wilderness' without many tools, we could prob figure out how to build something cool like that if we all put our minds to it.

i find myself increasingly attuned to the positioning of the sun in the sky ... if we didnt have distractions like TV and jobs we'd prob be able to pin down where it sets and shines pretty easily over the course of a year (not to diminish how cool this is!!). but i could see myself if out in the wilderness a few thousand years ago wanting to try to build something cool around it like this

[dimejinky99]

Odd timing. You can steam the winter solstice live from newgrange tomorrow morning or whatever time that is for you guys. 8:45am here. Weather permitting

https://heritageireland.ie/visit/places ... nd-knowth/

[dimejinky99]

[dimejinky99]

Ancients knew what they were doing
We just don’t know how they did it.

[BurtReynolds]

Fun stuff

[BurtReynolds]

Imagine the Lord of the Rings type shit that went on in the olden days...

[BurtReynolds]

Gigachad was real. RETVRN TO MESOLITHIC

[BurtReynolds]

[elliseamos]

Oh well, shit happens.

[spike]

Ancient shrinkflation.

[BurtReynolds]

Oh well, shit happens.

We should spend countless resources filling it back in.

[elliseamos]

Gadaffi tried, no?

[elliseamos]

I couldn't remember which thread Burt raged about Stonehenge so I'm posting this here.

[BurtReynolds]

Looks as fake as the concrete rocks they have piled up in Britain.

[Bi_3]

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2022 ... stonehenge

[elliseamos]

Rebuild it! Quick!