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From: jack@boring.uucp (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: europe vs the middle east in 2000 BC
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Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 19:07:19 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 16 19:07:19 1986
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In article <1217@cvl.UUCP> eli@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang) writes:
>
>How was it that a rather primitive people such as the celts could design
>and implement such a powerful astronomical "computer" as Stonehenge, when
>far to the east, much more advanced people, the Egyptians (who were well into
>their Middle Kingdom period) never developed anything comparable?
Well, obviously the Celts knew more about magic than the Egyptians.

Also, it is a misunderstanding that they had trouble aligning Stonehenge,
since what they did was first drop the stones whereever they liked,
and then tilt and move the earth to get all those nice features.

This tilting, by the way, caused some serious inconvenience in
other parts of the world, nowadays usually referred to as "the Flood".
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.