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12,000 Year Old Massive Underground Tunnels Found (w/video)

12,000 Year Old Massive Underground Tunnels Found from Scotland to Turkey w/video

Before its News ~~ Friday, February 3, 2017 14:43

Is it possible that ancient cultures were interconnected thousands of years ago? According to thousands of underground tunnels that stretch from North Scotland towards the Mediterranean the answer is a big yes. While the reason behind these sophisticated tunnels remains a mystery, many experts believe that this huge 12,000 year old network was built as a protection against predators and other dangers 12,000 years ago. Some experts believe that these mysterious tunnels were used as modern-day highways, allowing the transition of people and connecting them to distant places across Europe. . . Read Complete article

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‘Frankenstein’ Mummies From Bog Off Coast Of Scotland Show Mix Of Corpses

Illustration: Human Skeleton Front. CREDIT LadyofHats Mariana Ruiz Villarreal SOURCE Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

from Huffington Post

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor
Published: 07/09/2012 01:54 PM EDT on LiveScience

Mummies found off the coast of Scotland are Frankenstein-like composites of several corpses, researchers say.

This mixing of remains was perhaps designed to combine different ancestries into a single lineage, archaeologists speculated. . . . Read Complete Post

Archaeologists in Oban discover Bronze Age was height of cool

Photo: View from Dunstaffnage Castle Ramparts, Scotland CREDIT geograph.org.uk SOURCE Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

from Scotsman.com

By MOIRA KERR
Published on Sunday 3 June 2012 00:00

THEY had fridges, state-of-the-art heating systems and possibly even access to a sauna. Archaeologists have discovered that Bronze Age people, at a settlement on the west coast of Scotland dating back up to 4,000 years, had a range of mod cons that would be envied by home owners today.

A dig on the site of a new housing development near Oban has uncovered what are believed to be some of Scotland’s earliest cold storage larders in six Bronze Age roundhouses. A team led by Dr Clare Ellis, from Argyll Archaeology, claim the roundhouses at Dunstaffnage are the first in Scotland to have ring ditches inside the structure. These may have been used as cellars to cool food – a precursor to the refrigerator.

They also have vents leading into the central hearths which would have allowed the occupants to regulate their heating, while outside are the remnants of what could be a very simple form of sauna. . . . Read complete Report

A Lost World? Atlantis-Like Landscape Discovered Under the Atlantic Ocean

from USAHITMAN

Ancient, Lost Landscape

Buried deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an ancient, lost landscape with furrows cut by rivers and peaks that once belonged to mountains. Geologists recently discovered this roughly 56-million-year-old landscape using data gathered for oil companies. “It looks for all the world like a map of a bit of a country onshore,” said Nicky White, the senior researcher. “It is like an ancient fossil landscape preserved 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath the seabed.”

So far, the data have revealed a landscape about 3,861 square miles (10,000 square km) west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands that stretched above sea level by almost as much as 0.6 miles (1 km). White and colleagues suspect it is part of a larger region that merged with what is now Scotland and may have extended toward Norway in a hot, prehuman world. . . . Read complete report