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Definitely aliens.
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Well, that's cleared that one up, then. :)
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Oliver, I now hate you for making me remember this and it's catchy but shit theme tune.
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..just how did erik von daniken make those inca lines in the desert..?
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Pffft..* I don't think so *
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..just how did erik von daniken make those inca lines in the desert..?
"Erich von Däniken" :)
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Watched the entire series of The Mysterious Cities... again a couple of months ago.
It's deep for a children's cartoon, deals with a lot of hard-hitting issues. The displacement of the native people, the abuse of power and religion, sexism, racism. I love the little history lessons at the end too. A bit sad to watch too though.
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Among the most famous sites are, of course, the Mesoamerican and South American sites like Chichén Itza or Machu Picchu:
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But have you been to Manchester?
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In relation to your first post, I find this shit very interesting and would dearly love to see some of these places for myself.
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You can't see them for yourself, 'cause I want to see them for myself. So there.
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I'll take the north side, you take the south.
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I find stuff deserted in even the past few hundred years fascinating. Around me there are a lot of old farmhouses up the mountains where the forestry commission has taken over the land but left the buildings to rot. At a glance there's nothing special. Then you realise that the 40ft trees in a rows used to be hedges etc.
From what I've learnt about the local mountain there used to be grapevines at the top during Roman times.
A lot of stuff about south america is outstanding. The amount of earthworks which look fairly natural at first. Then you realise how much work has gone into the landscape.
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Oliver, I now hate you for making me remember this and it's catchy but shit theme tune.
Oh yes, there was this song, which was the theme tune for a series that fascinated me hugely when I was small. I'm sure it would have been screened in this country, too. The Germans at the time were in the habit of commissioning their own scores for everything, and this one was given to Udo Jürgens, also sometimes known as Udo Würgens, for the German speakers among us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCAvJnCxJBA
Most of the episodes seem to be on YouTube, although probably not legitimately. I was always mesmerised by the recurring cartoon characters morphing into figures from different epochs.
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I find stuff deserted in even the past few hundred years fascinating. Around me there are a lot of old farmhouses up the mountains where the forestry commission has taken over the land but left the buildings to rot. At a glance there's nothing special. Then you realise that the 40ft trees in a rows used to be hedges etc.
That gets me about American ghost towns. Here's a cheesy YouTube video using the theme from Gunsmoke ('Old Trail' or 'Old Trails') over photos of ghost towns:
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BBC did a short series on this stuff a few years ago... Lost Cities of the Aincients. They've since been buried under repeats of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, but a bit of creative internet archaeology should uncover them.
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An interesting list:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/apr/18/europe-most-threatened-sites-landmarks
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I always wondered why there's a large spike at London bridge
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Lost cities / archaeology / ancient history
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@Oliver Schick
I'm always fascinated by how little we know about our history and how much we find that has been buried for millennia, sometimes turning our accepted ideas of the past on its head. I'm mainly interested in the layout of ancient cities, not so much in a precise account of what battle took place on which day. Here's an example of a new discovery that was publicised the other day:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/03/china-ruined-palace-terracotta-army
I'm always amazed by the sheer scale of what has been lost; huge ancient cities abandoned because of wars, natural disasters, or climate change and whose ruins were eventually buried and completely forgotten.
Now ground-penetrating radar and new infrared satellite imagery appear to accelerate the pace of discovery:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957
I'm not expecting this to be a majority interest on LFGSS. :)
Inevitably, the Internet has generated a certain number of web-sites full of crackpot nonsense, mostly involving aliens. These can be quite mind-bogglingly stupid and I'm sure some will turn up in this thread.