Archaeologists in the Netherlands, uncovered a 4,000-year-old solar shrine used for around 800 years during the Bronze Age, archaeologists announced Wednesday.
The complex near the modern town of Tiel is about the size of four soccer fields, and is centered around a trio of burial mounds which contained the remains of 60 men, women and children.
Around the largest hill, more posts were put in place along with a shallow ditch containing several passages. Combined, the two features helped the religious figures using the site to tell time more exactly. Other finds included human remains and artifacts, including a bronze spearhead and a glass bead, the oldest ever found in the Netherlands, hailing all the way from ancient Mesopotamia, today’s Iraq. In six years of excavation at the site, more than a million distinct objects were uncovered from a number of time periods.
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