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- From: tratclif@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tracy Ratcliff)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: The Antiquity of "Christmas"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.205941.3133@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:59:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.011417.9670@s1.gov> <1992Dec23.084010.3782@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens
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- In article <1992Dec23.084010.3782@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- >:
- >: The age of these monuments -- _at least_ 4000-5000 years (I
- >: don't recall precise figures), typically, which is a lot longer ago
- >: than when Jesus Christ lived.
- >
- >If I recall correctly, the structures (such as Stonehenge) were started
- >about 1000 BCE - maybe a bit earlier.
- >
- I _could_ make a quick dash to the bedroom to get the actual references, but,
- naaah, I'll be like most everyone on the net and just pop off...
-
- From memory, Stonehenge was a later structure (ca. 1500 BCE?) but many
- megalithic structures in Western Europe predate the pyramids, 3000 BCE give
- or take a few centuries.
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