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This has sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole of suprising age related facts.

Otzi the ice man also predates the pyramids.

Poor dude. I thought they would’ve buried him again by now.

Poor dude. I thought they would’ve buried him again by now.

You'd think. Although they've been moving pretty slowly. Took them 20 years to even find his stomach! To be fair, he is probably the world's oldest "surviving" murder victim...should probably figure out who did it.

Tangentially related, I’ve started reading The Winter King, about Arthurian England. I really enjoyed the second scene which centres around a royal birth, and gives reimagined colour to the witchcraft and religious practices that would have accompanied such events in the distant and ancient past (spoiler!): roaring fires on the snow-covered parapets; local children banging pots, women howling and guards hitting their spears on their shields to keep demons and witches away in the night; pagan magic/midwifery.

The book outlines a lot of human suffering that makes me damn grateful to be alive now, the author’s poetic license aside.

Took them 20 years to even find his stomach!

Didn't it take them dozens of x-rays before they even found the arrowhead that killed him?

Otzi the ice man

Didn't he used to be on here ?

roaring fires on the snow-covered parapets; local children banging pots, women howling and guards hitting their spears on their shields to keep demons and witches away in the night

This is what happens when my cycling club appoints a new committee member.

Similar age to some of the OG members.

Otzi the ice man also predates the pyramids.

Says who? We don't know when the alien lizards built the pyramids.

I think he’s saying the Ice Man captured prey around the pyramids, presumably the alien lizard people.

They are a bugger to move when the clocks change.

Stonehenge is not the stones. The stones are a stone circle within Stonehenge (a henge is a circular bank and ditch where the ditch is on the inside). The World Heritage designated monument is also not just Stonehenge, it is Stonehenge and the surrounding environ, which includes Avebury, the Avenue/Mall, the Kings Barrows etc etc. Pisses all over the pyramids.

/archaeo-pedant

The Newgrange site in County Meath in ROI is even older than Stonehenge

But what were the raves like at the pyramids in the 90s? Just Jean Michel Jarre and some lasers or did the proper crusties and their rigs take over for a weekend?

Don't forget woodhenge, albeit less impressive.

Stonehenge is not the stones. The stones are a stone circle within Stonehenge (a henge is a circular bank and ditch where the ditch is on the inside). The World Heritage designated monument is also not just Stonehenge, it is Stonehenge and the surrounding environ, which includes Avebury, the Avenue/Mall, the Kings Barrows etc etc. Pisses all over the pyramids.

/archaeo-pedant

My stones are definitely within. Especially when its cold.

The World Heritage designated monument is also not just Stonehenge, it is Stonehenge and the surrounding environ, which includes Avebury, the Avenue/Mall, the Kings Barrows etc etc. Pisses all over the pyramids.

Your affection for the A303 is greater than mine.

If there is a Stonehenge and a Woodhenge does this imply there was also a Strawhenge?

You might (or there again, you might not) want to try The Sword At Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff. In this tale Arthur King is a post-Roman prince. Low on magic, high on (likely) realism

Have you been to Stonehenge? The triptychs are 30 feet high!

Classic scene.

Is that ice man looking at the time on his watch?

Bloke at art college with me made a replica from sponges
Behold Foamhenge!

You might (or there again, you might not) want to try The Sword At Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff. In this tale Arthur King is a post-Roman prince. Low on magic, high on (likely) realism

Thanks, sounds good I’ll look it up. Haven’t come across actual magic in this book yet, just descriptions of how pagan etc. people could’ve acted and understood the world.

The Winter King

Read it years ago, it's great. Can't beat Bernard Cornwell for a historical novel. He of course wrote the Sharpe series of novels too.

EDIT: his novel Stonehenge covers the building of said monument.

Stonehenge is not the stones

ok boomer