The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/features/page/17)
I was twenty-one, and that was the first time I had ever seen the ocean. I slept that night as close to the window as I could, straining my ears for the sound of waves. The ocean was a poetic trope, the longing of Tolkien’s elves, a setting for adventure and tragedy. I loved the idea of it, and I wanted to be lulled into sleep like the heroes of my favorite books, but that was all I knew of the water.
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Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, have identified an ancient Nile branch, the “Ahramat Branch,” which likely facilitated pyramid construction and ceremonial activities near Memphis, explaining the concentration of pyramids in this area.
Archeologist report finding a remarkably well-preserved statue of Hermes inside a Roman sewer in the southwestern Bulgaria.
Exhausted, sweaty, and painfully hungry, I take my back into the gravel road of what must be Sōdra Ugglarp. On the horizon a long earthen-colored brick building stands against the deep blue sky, like a wall. In front of it, I notice a concrete-pit filled with horse manure. Closest to me, nearly as long as the barn, lies the stone ship, shaped by dozens of massive standing stones, like teeth of a giant rising from the green earth.