3,000 Year Old Settlement Preserved... By Being Burned

Via Albion Swords, a raiding party thousands of years ago struck this settlement and burned it. Oddly enough, that's just why we can see it today in such dramatic detail.

3 comments:

Eric Blair said...

Hey, Pompeii, Herculaneum, etc...

Disasters, (both manmade and natural) are what archaeologists hope for.

Ymar Sakar said...

Human knowledge of the past is so limited. It's amazing anyone gets any of it right.

douglas said...

"We had to destroy the village to save it"