Every day, it seems, we discover new exoplanets, they are apparently as common as litter on a city sidewalk. Likewise, every day, it seems, we discover some ancient shipwreck, or the bones of a previously unknown dinosaur, or the ruins of an ancient city which was thought to be mythical.
They’ll need to actually dig it up to see it in more detail
It is no surprise. Space stretches out, on and on, almost forever, as far as we can tell. And the past stretches back, and back, and back. A shipwreck from 1899. The body of Richard III under a parking lot. The tomb of Alexander. Ruins of an ancient Greek city on the floor of the sea. The extensive underground ruins of Stonehenge. Dinosaurs.
For hundreds of millions of years, life has been leaving litter all over the place. A little here, a little there, but it’s been adding up and now it’s pretty much everywhere we look. The world is really not that big a place and we have pretty much blanketed it with stuff. Most of which we’d thought was lost forever, we were living without it just fine, and it’s kind of bizarre to find it again.
One find I’m particularly excited about is the Stonehenge thing. Apparently, there are lots of stone formations, just under the ground, all around it. A lot of archaeologists, of course, are still talking about its ‘religious significance,’ and talking about it as an ‘ancient temple’ but it seems to me that’s what they say about everything. It sounds like an ancient city to me.
Like the Nazca lines. I was watching Discovery Channel once and they were saying that they were an ancient well worn path, as if people had had frequent religious processions along these routes, and I thought, “well, or else they were actual streets.”
Sometimes things have a mundane explanation. More often than not, I suspect.
Anyway, with Stone Henge I think what they ought to do is go whole hog, dig up the whole area. A few farmers will lose their fields,but sheep can be moved. A small price to pay to unearth, and recreate, a full blown ancient Celtic (maybe) settlement.
It could be awesome.
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