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Archaeologists Unearth Large Bronze-Age City in Romania
« on: August 09, 2018, 02:41:03 am »
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Archaeologists Unearth Large Bronze-Age City in Romania
Ana Maria Luca

A team of Romanian and German archaeologists has unearthed an 80-hectare prehistoric city in western Romania which they have described as a ‘Troy of the Carpathians’.

Romanian and German archaeologists have discovered an 8-hectare late Bronze Age fortified city located on the lower Mures River near Arad in western Romania.

The prehistoric city, described by Romanian local archaeologists as the ‘Troy of the Carpathians’, was not built of stone like the famous ancient city in Asia Minor, but of soil and wood, and is almost three times bigger. Troy was 29 hectares in size.

Read more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/archaeologists-unearth-big-bronze-age-city-in-romania-08-06-2018

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Re: Archaeologists Unearth Large Bronze-Age City in Romania
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2018, 03:15:43 am »
How big? 80, 8, or 29 hectacres?

40 hectacres, and a wooly mammoth?
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