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‘Danish Stonehenge’ from 2,000BC is discovered
Danish archeologists have uncovered a circle of wooden piles dating back to about 2,000 BC that they say could have a ‘strong connection’ to Britain’s world-renowned Stonehenge.
The 45 neolithic-era wooden pieces, in a circle with a diameter of about 100 feet, were found during work on a housing estate in the northwestern town of Aars. The piles are about two metres apart.
‘It is a once in a lifetime find,’ Sidsel Wahlin, conservationist at the town’s Vesthimmerland museum, said.
The circle ‘points to a strong connection with the British henge world,’ she added. The two circles of stones at Stonehenge in southern England are believed to have been erected between 3100 BC and 1600 BC.
The Danish archeologists are now trying to find if there is an inner circle at the Aars site.
Wahlin said that some timber circles, considered part of worshipping of the sun, have been found on the Danish island of Bornholm.
She added that the circle in Aars was ‘the first one of this larger type that we can properly investigate’.
Archeologists first found an early Bronze Age (1700-1500 BC) settlement at the building site that included a chieftains grave and a bronze sword, Wahlin said.
‘When I and my colleague opened a new section of the excavation the expected house and some fence quickly turned out to be the entrance area of a very well planned, slightly oval structure,’ she added.
The wooden circle is estimated to be 4,000 years old and is thought to date back to 2,000BC, but Wahlin said the team had started detailed work on Monday to definitively identify its age and function.
The archeologists are now looking for ‘ritual deposits’ such as flint arrowheads and daggers as part of a major sampling exercise at the site.
Wahlin said the next searches would seek to find if there were links between the region and other peoples, such as those who built Stonehenge.
She said the influence of other regions could be seen in the pottery and graves that had been found.
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Man in shock after lady he lodged with in a hotel in Abuja flees with his car and other valuables
A Nigerian man is currently in shock after a young lady identified as Precious Chinyere , whom he took to a hotel in the Asokoro area in the FCT for a romantic getaway allegedly fled with his car and other personal belongings on Thursday, February 5,
The distraught man and Precious had visited the hotel and opted for a short time stay. Things took a different in the evening when the man noticed Precious had left the hotel room without notifying him and took along with her some of his personal belongings including phones and laptop and also his car.
The victim immediately reported the incident to the police.
When contacted, the spokesperson of the FCT police command, SP Josephine Adeh, told LIB that the matter is currently being investigated and that efforts are being made to apprehend the suspect.
The United States Mission in Nigeria has condemned the k!lling of more than 200 civilians in recent attacks on communities in Kwara State.
Recall that terrorists launched de@dly attacks on Woro and Nuku communities in Kaiama Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday night, k!lling unsuspecting citizens.
It was gathered that the gunmen invaded the villages, opened fire on residents and burned homes.
According to reports, the de@th toll from the unfortunate incident hit 200 on Thursday night.
Reacting, the US Mission Nigeria condemned the k!lling via a post on its official X handle.
The post reads, “The United States condemns the horrific attack in Kwara state in Nigeria, which claimed the lives of more than 160 people, with the de@th toll still unconfirmed and many still unaccounted for.
“We express our deepest condolences to the families of those affected by this senseless violence.
“We welcome President Tinubu’s order to deploy security forces to protect villages in the area and his directive to federal and state officials to provide aid to the community and bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice.”
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“I’ll never settle for a barber, yahoo boy or a poor man” — nail tech’s list of men she says she can’t marry sparks reactions online
A Nigerian nail technician has set social media talking after openly listing the kind of men she says she can never settle for.
In a now-viral post, she stated clearly that she refuses to “settle for less” and went on to mention professions and traits she considers a no-go area.
According to her, she can never settle for a barber, an aza man, a yahoo boy, a mechanic, an actor, a laundry man, a hype man, or a plumber. She also added that she wouldn’t marry a man with a high body count or a poor man.
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