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Home INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SINCE 1921 SIGN INIce cores hint astatine a volcanic eruption astir nan clip of nan funeral successful Stone Age Denmark
More than 100 engraved stones unearthed successful Denmark picture images of nan sun. The stones, including nan 2 shown here, whitethorn person been buried arsenic portion of a ritual to bring backmost nan sun aft a volcanic eruption, researchers say.
John Lee/National Museum of Denmark, R. Iversen et al/Antiquity 2025
As a volcanic eruption darkened nan sun astir 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age civilization sacrificed hundreds of dressed up chromatic plaques to effort to coax it back.
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