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Pylos Combat Agate

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Postby argoal » November 8th, 2017, 2:31 pm

Astonishing and beautiful piece of ancient art that turned up in an excavation of ancient graves.

The 1.4 inch long artifact looked like this when found...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/11 ... ter675.jpg

...but when cleaned up....

https://www.sciencealert.com/images/201 ... lstone.jpg

.....revealed a 3,500 year old masterpiece.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... d-carving/

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