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Easter Island’s Statues Reveal Bodies Covered With Unknown Ancient Petroglyphs

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Standing some 2,000 miles west of Chile, 887 mysterious giant statues have intrigued scientists and the public for years on Easter Island. It was believed that the massive statutes consisted of just the heads for a long time. However, in October 2011, when the Easter Island Statue Project began its […]

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Easter Island’s Statues Reveal Bodies Covered With Unknown Ancient Petroglyphs

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Standing some 2,000 miles west of Chile, on Easter Island, 887 mysterious giant statues have intrigued scientists and the public for years. For a long time, it was believed that the massive statutes consisted of just the heads. However, in October 2011, when the Easter Island Statue Project began its

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Satellite image of the Sandby borg ringfort, with the layout of the houses and the defence wall marked. The two houses mentioned in the text are indicated. Courtesy of Kalmar County Museum and Andreas Viberg.

1500-Year-Old Mystery Of The Sandby Borg – Excavation Of Ringfort On Öland, Sweden

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AncientPages.com – During the excavation of Sandby borg ringfort on the island of Öland, Sweden, a number of macabre finds were made. Skeletal remains from a small child were found in one of the houses in the ringforts central block. This is the first child to be identified among the victims of the massacre at Sandby

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