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this is a discussion within the Everything Else Community Forum; Originally Posted by Crusader Archaeologists digging in old Uppsala have discovered what appears to be a remarkable display of power of a fifth century Swedish chieftain. Massive posts marked the ancient road in perfect alignment for more than a kilometre. ...

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Old 10-18-2013, 06:01 AM   #1
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Re: Uppsala unearths pagan road of old kings

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Archaeologists digging in old Uppsala have discovered what appears to be a remarkable display of power of a fifth century Swedish chieftain. Massive posts marked the ancient road in perfect alignment for more than a kilometre. ...

... Lucas said that all the digging was done, and the actual site of the ancient road will be gone by next summer as the new East Coast Railway is built ... Gamla Uppsala is already known to archaeologists and historians for its royal burial mounds dating back to the seventh century.
Cool, but they're gonna' put a railway over a historical site like that next summer?
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Old 10-20-2013, 04:15 PM   #2
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Cool, but they're gonna' put a railway over a historical site like that next summer?
Unfortunately yes. The region is so full of historical sites that if they would not build because they found something in the ground nothing would ever get built.
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Unfortunately yes. The region is so full of historical sites that if they would not build because they found something in the ground nothing would ever get built.
It's like Rome. In Rome, there are sites on top of sites. Sites under catacombs, under buildings, under roads. It's inevitable.
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Unfortunately yes. The region is so full of historical sites that if they would not build because they found something in the ground nothing would ever get built.
So chances are good for a real life Poltergeist!!!
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Old 10-21-2013, 05:35 AM   #5
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Unfortunately yes. The region is so full of historical sites that if they would not build because they found something in the ground nothing would ever get built.
I guess you can tell there's not a lot of ancient history in my neck-of-the-woods, eh?
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I guess you can tell there's not a lot of ancient history in my neck-of-the-woods, eh?
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Old 10-22-2013, 05:51 PM   #7
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Hey, thanks Smash! I totally forgot about that, .
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