Europe's oldest civilization found?

[Cordoba]

Greetings to All:

An amazing news item in Saturday's Independent:

Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=645976

A civilization, still without name, that lasted only 200 years?

More than 150 gigantic monuments have been located beneath the fields and cities of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia.

They were built 7,000 years ago, between 4800BC and 4600BC. Their discovery, revealed today by The Independent, will revolutionise the study of prehistoric Europe, where an appetite for monumental architecture was thought to have developed later than in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Who do you think it could be?

 

[Jaymes]

That's amazing! I can't wait to learn more about these ancient peoples... a new (well, old, haha) civilization! It'll be fascinating.

 

[Mister Emu]

Woohoo, I love learning about ancient civilizations. :woohoo:

 

[jimbob]

Awesome. That's really neat. Now i've got some fun stuff to research this weekend. thanks.

 

[anders]

I sure will watch for more comments and facts. Not too far from that area is Bulgaria, which claims to have found Europe's oldest writing. http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001911.php

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I sure will watch for more comments and facts.

Well said.

 

[CaptainXeroid]

Wow!!! This is interesting much like reading about the city of Pompeii. I wonder not only who they were but how their civilization became buried and where they went. Hopefully, archeologists will learn a lot more.

 

[TrueQ]

Ohhh! New history to add to the books! Who says the paper only has bad news? Of course, I wouldn't rule out the possibility that these 'temples' are landing platforms for alien spacecraft just yet.

 

[Sunstone]

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