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The best Ancient Origins articles for this week. Enjoy! [logo4fixed] View this email [in your browser]( [Top10Banner]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [image?cs_ema...]( Stonehenge Builders Had Ancient Knowledge of Pythagorean Geometry [img3]( A new book, Megalith, claims ancient Britons built Stonehenge “and other stone circles with a knowledge of Pythagoras' theorem, 2,000 years before the Greek philosopher formalized geometry.” Megalithic researcher Robin Heath, who contributed to the book, told reporters at The Telegraph that he presents evidence of “a great Pythagorean triangle in the British landscape” and editor John Matineau connects “Stonehenge with Lundy Island in Wales and the site from which... [Read more...]( Are Ancient Inscriptions Found at Tintagel Evidence of King Arthur’s Presence? [img3]( The Guardian Newspaper has reported a remarkable find in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. A slab of slate has been discovered during an extraction at the famous Tintagel historic site on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, South-West England. What makes this slate so important was that there is writing on it from a period when examples of literacy are extremely rare. The writing is an exciting discovery and it is allowing experts to challenge assumptions about the Dark Ages while... [Read more...]( Archaeologists in the UK Find Two Mutilated Skeletons [secret-text]( According to The Guardian newspaper, archaeologists in the UK have made a grisly discovery. They have found the graves of two men who have had their lower legs detached at an archaeological site in Cambridgeshire. The graves discovered are among many found at a huge archaeological site that is being explored prior to development. Although the perpetrators of the severing of the limbs is unknown, as is the motive, the finds are raising important questions for archaeologists about behavior during the Roman to Saxon era... [Read more...]( True Origin of Ancient Turquoise Outstretches Previous Beliefs [img3]( New research published in the journal Science Advancesoverturns more than a century of thought about the source of turquoise used by ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica, the vast region that extends from Central Mexico to Central America. For more than 150 years, scholars have argued that the Aztec and Mixtec civilizations, which revered the precious, blue-green mineral, acquired it through import from the American Southwest . However, extensive... [Read more...]( [banner_0]( Gas Engineer’s Large Collection of Ancient Rings May Fetch $130000 at UK Auction [img3]( A stunning assemblage of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Viking, and medieval rings is going up for auction next week. They come from a remarkable ancient rings collection which was once owned by a Leicester gas engineer, who amassed his personal treasure during the 1950s and 1960s. The rings’ seller may be in for a large windfall, especially if the rings manage to raise the estimated amount of between £80,000 and £100,000 (approximately $105 to $131k) at the auction. The event is... [Read more...]( Repugnant Destruction of 320-Million-Year-Old Stone Structure Causes Worldwide Fury [alchemical]( In AD 455, a gang of Germanic tribesmen sacked the city of Rome and their burning and pillaging was so ferocious that the tribes name was encapsulated for all of time as synonymous with their act of destruction - The Vandals - and to this day vandalism is a crime in every village, town and city. But now, they’re targeting the ancient world. A gang of moronic vandals have mindlessly destroyed an iconic sandstone formation known as Brimham Rocks, in the moors national park, England... [Read more...]( Illegal Metal Detectorists Cause Irreparable Damage to 1900-Year-Old Hadrian’s Wall [img3]( Nighthawks, illegal metal detectorists who search for treasure at night, have hit one of the best-preserved sections of Hadrian’s Wall. Historic England has sent out a call to action to the public with a plea that the destruction and looting will stop. The destruction left by the nighthawks is visible in over 50 holes around Brunton Turret in Northumberland. This section of the wall has been very well-preserved and was built by the 20th Legion of the Roman army. [Read more...]( [banner]( Cocaine Laden Mummified Children Vindicate Football Champion [img3]( The coca plant is native to western South America and is grown in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru and the chewing of coca with lime in rituals and to relieve altitude sickness, goes back 8000 years. Today, South America is the world’s producer of the plant’s psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine, and it should be of no surprise when big shots in South American sports put a foot out of line, and their noses into a line, from time to time... [Read more...]( New Gibbon Genus Discovered in Ancient Chinese Royal Tomb? [infant-dna]( A gibbon skull recovered from an ancient tomb in China was possibly driven to extinction in the last two millennia and researchers told reporters at Science “it might be an entirely new species.” In 2004, archaeologists digging near Xi’an in Shaanxi province, central China, discovered a large tomb which dated to between 200 - 300 BC. Then, in 2011, Samuel Turvey, a conservation biologist at the Zoological Society of London studied a collection of leopard, bear and crane skeletons recovered from the tomb and among these was the “skull and jaw of a gibbon.” [Read more...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( You Might Like [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( You have received this email because you have subscribed to [Ancient-Origins.net](. Copyright © 2018 [Stella Novus Limited]( - [Ancient Origins]( Stella Novus Limited - Ancient Origins. 61 Saint Assam's Park, Raheny, Dublin 5, D05 W3C8, Ireland. 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