Bruniquel Cave, France
From series “Famous Stables of Ancient People”
French Bruniquel Cave also attracts a lot of researchers. There were found two stone circles which were built more than 170 000 years ago. The researchers have no doubts that these mysterious circles were made by people. The main material was the parts of stalactites and stalagmites. In order to make the circles, there were used about 400 parts which were connected to the fire.
More than 170 000 years ago on the territory of modern France lived the Neanderthals. No one except them could do anything like this. The unusual circles in the Bruniquel Cave are quite complex buildings. It says that Neanderthals were more intelligent than the modern science used to think. We still don't know about the real practical use of these outstanding circles.
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