Ale’s Stones: Sweden’s Great Stone Ship Sailing a Clifftop Above the Baltic
On a clifftop in southern Sweden, fifty-nine great boulders form a 67-metre ship of stone — the grandest of Scandinavia’s enigmatic Iron Age stone ships.
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On a clifftop in southern Sweden, fifty-nine great boulders form a 67-metre ship of stone — the grandest of Scandinavia’s enigmatic Iron Age stone ships.
On a hillside near Évora in Portugal stands the Almendres Cromlech, nearly a hundred granite stones raised around 6000 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, it is Iberia’s greatest megalithic monument.
Image: Boyko Blagoev Dipçe: A total of forty thousand pieces are exhibited in the Kırcaali Village Regional History Museum, which also includes a work in the OZ structure made of
Centuries before Çatalhöyük, people in Cappadocia already built streetless houses entered through the roof, kept early sheep, and even performed brain surgery. Meet Aşıklı Höyük.
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In a quiet French valley stand the tumuli of Bougon, burial mounds raised around 4800 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, they reveal how the first farmers honoured their dead in stone.
On a windswept ridge in the Outer Hebrides, thirteen ancient stones ring a towering monolith — a 5,000-year-old monument tied to the moon and the far horizon.
Caral, in the Supe Valley of Peru, is the oldest known city in the Americas — built with pyramids, sunken plazas, and clever earthquake-proof foundations at the very same time as the Great Pyramid of Egypt, yet with almost no sign of war.
In a Peruvian desert, a lost civilization built pyramids at the same time as the Egyptians, with no contact between them. Inside Caral, the oldest known city in the Americas.