| Archaeologists have discovered an arc of buried megaliths that once formed part of the great stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire. |
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| The dry summer led to exceptional definition of buried megaliths, so that orientations and dimensions could be seen. |
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| The mid afternoon sun glared down on me as I looked around for the megaliths. |
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| The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths. |
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| I had heard that the megaliths at Stonehenge could be seen from a great distance and one would be overwhelmed as one approached closer. |
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| A popular belief allocated therapeutic properties to megaliths, for example, the menhir of Grisac was told to fight against infertility. |
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| The descendants of my people and some of the others wanted to engrave the story of their people on megaliths and into temples. |
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| Its particular shape also recalls the space of Celtic sacred sanctuaries, which were traditionally bordered by megaliths. |
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| The potential significance of Nabta as a ceremonial site was further strengthened by the discovery of an arrangement of stone megaliths on the western edge of the Nabta basin. |
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| You will be able to discover the historical settings of the Cathares in fortified towns, castles, abbeys caves, megaliths and stones crosses. |
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| Part B of the complex still contains several megaliths which form a small circle containing a 3m long menhir. |
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| Carnac is famous for its megaliths. This site is considered the largest in the world. |
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| Topics have included the history of megaliths, the semi-defunct international language Esperanto, underground Japanese cinema and music broadcast to and from space. |
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| These low walls are invaluable small rural monuments to be preserved, with sometimes hundreds of narrow steps or a gate made of two megaliths. |
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| The true nature of Boris Johnson's London is taking shape in the form of some 30 bleak glass megaliths dotted at random across the capital. |
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| After rescuing St Paul's from the Stonehenge megaliths, the professor and Chris raced back. |
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| A new breed has taken the place of the diversified industrial megaliths that have passed into history. |
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| This hike runs among chapels and megaliths in a land endowed with a very beautiful patrimony. |
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| A crómlech is a megalithic monument formed by stones or megaliths anchored vertically on the soil and distributed forming circles or concentric ellipses. |
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| There's are also numerous cup and ring carvings and megaliths in the Machars and the Rhins of Galloway hinting at a migration route to Ireland. |
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| During the Second World War, Nash's megaliths were replaced by fallen planes. |
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| It is one of the biggest megaliths of Lozère, it lost its roofing stone. |
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| And when th Sun Gate has been built, some texts and effigys which have been found in these ancient temples and megaliths have been engraved on it. |
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| The megaliths are surrounded by a rectangular shaped 130cm thick wall. |
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| The wonders of the Internet carry us straight to the ancient megaliths, which were lit by candles and flaming pots for three evocative evenings. |
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| She begins with the facts of megaliths in time, megalithic architecture, and megalithic art. |
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| While some of the megaliths are blank, others are carved on their broader sides with elaborate designs featuring foxes, scorpions, lions, and other imagery. |
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| There are few artifacts from Prehistory, e.g. some samples of megaliths, but very much less than in the southern area, i.e., Aveyron, Lot, and Lozère. |
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| Ourense was inhabited in prehistoric times, as testified by the remains of the necropolis and megaliths found in the territory, but more important are the forts built by the ancient Celtic peoples. |
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| The very existence of the numerous megaliths in Wiltshire but also in the world, reveals that their constructors clearly had knowledge and possessed an expertise that has long since been forgotten. |
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| Inhabited by wild birds, you will discover along its paths its 30 kilometres of coast with megaliths, lech's and steles which seem to come from another world. |
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| Thus, art history is now seen to encompass all visual art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang Dynasty in China. |
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| Burial cairns and other megaliths are the subject of a variety of legends and folklore throughout Britain and Ireland. |
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| These occur primarily on the Atlantic coast of Europe, but there are also megaliths on western Mediterranean islands. |
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| Later that year, a geophysics survey of the southeast and northeast quadrants of the circle by the National Trust revealed at least 15 of the megaliths lying buried. |
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| The megaliths of the Senegambian area near the Atlantic coast are characterised by upright blocks or pillars of laterite, carefully worked to a smooth surface. |
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| Some Neolithic cultures listed above are known for constructing megaliths. |
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| However, recent research into the age of megaliths in Brittany strongly suggests a far older origin, perhaps back to six to seven thousand years ago. |
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| Originally thought to contain 60 megaliths, now only 27 remain. |
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| Museums dedicated to Prehistory and local megaliths are located in Carnac and Penmarch, while several towns like Vannes and Nantes have a museum presenting their own history. |
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| Megaliths found in Europe and the Mediterranean were also erected in the Neolithic period. |
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| Megaliths found at Nabta Playa are overt examples of probably the world's first known archaeoastronomy devices, predating Stonehenge by some 2,000 years. |
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