@Vibracobra23 went on the hunt for these Kent UK megaliths on Thursday. Had no idea about them till my daughter found them online. Proved quite hard to find in real life!
A well-preserved #tomb dating back more than 2,000 years was recently discovered in #China. The #Chinese Academy of #SocialSciences said in a statement Wednesday that more than 600 #relics were #unearthed.
#Chongqing Institute of #CulturalRelics & #Archeology reported that the tomb is clearly dated to early Western #HanDynasty in #Wulong District, Chongqing, marking the 1st time that so many relics that old have been located in the area.
In #Xian, one of the most famous archaeological digs in the world, the #TerracottaArmy of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, buried in 210 BCE. Five pits (pit #1 is the largest, size of 4 football fields), still mostly unearthed, with 8,000 soldiers, each one unique, 600 horses, 130 chariots, in an elaborate #tomb which the emperor began working on at age 13, involving 700,000 workers. Discovered by three farmers digging a well in 1974. #KaiSilkRoad#China#Asia#travel#archaeology
A mid-19th Century tomb designed as a Romanesque Tempietto hidden by ivy in the graveyard of the Cathcart Old Parish Church on the Southside of Glasgow.
Pakal's sarcophagus lid is made of a single stone. It measures between 245 and 290 millimetres (roughly 9-11.5 inches) thick in different places. It is 2.2 meters wide by 3.6 meters long (about 7 feet by 12 feet). The massive stone weighs seven tons.
One of the things that gets me about this is how long we've been using the familiar arch gravestone shape, in so many cultures, for nearly 5000 years since....
October special : Stele of the Serpent King "Djet" . One of the oldest known tomb stelae (sort of a gravestone). Limestone, c. 2820 BCE, Abydos, Egypt 🎃🪦🐍 (commons.m.wikimedia.org)
One of the things that gets me about this is how long we've been using the familiar arch gravestone shape, in so many cultures, for nearly 5000 years since....
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