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Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by gambiting »

kristopolous wrote: post #49
manicminer wrote: post #45

Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not sure why the media is depicting this as a discovery - it's not! Not sure if the Templar stuff is correct or not - I've seen nothing to corroborate this. Having been in the temple - it certainly seems very old. The entrance is a hole carved…

Teenagers and children seem to find everything. We may make some significant archeological discoveries with a couple cheap surveys.

One of the largest caves in Poland was discovered by two teenagers playing in the forest(the English article on wikipedia is very poor,sadly)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Cave

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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oh_sigh wrote: post #52
manicminer wrote: post #45

Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not sure why the media is depicting this as a discovery - it's not! Not sure if the Templar stuff is correct or not - I've seen nothing to corroborate this. Having been in the temple - it certainly seems very old. The entrance is a hole carved…

To be fair, the article didn't tout it as a discovery. It just said that a local man went out to photograph them and shared it with the BBC.

It did to begin with. BBC changed the article when they realised.

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by jacobush »

gambiting wrote: post #62
kristopolous wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teenagers and children seem to find everything. We may make some significant archeological discoveries with a couple cheap surveys.

One of the largest caves in Poland was discovered by two teenagers playing in the forest(the English article on wikipedia is very poor,sadly) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Cave

Same story in Sweden ! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lummelunda_Cave

Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave

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Post by brownbat »

knz wrote: post #25
brownbat wrote: post #22

It looks like the archway is filled with holes for candles. Lighting for meetings could not have been as trivial a task as it was for the researchers, who seem to have been able to toss down some cheap super bright LEDs(?). An hour of good lighting in a subterranean cave in those days must have cost a fortune. (Per Jane Brox, anyway...) https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Evolution-Artificial-Jane-B...

I'm curious if you recommend the linked book?

The Planet Money discussion was a good teaser:

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/02/309040279/in-4-000-years-one-t...

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