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Amazing that after 7000 years this 100+ megalith cromlech is standing (once again), and that it was only “discovered” in 1964. (Discovered presumably by those who had a reasonably good idea of what they were discovering…) It is the Almendres Cromlech outside Evora, Portugal.<\/p>\n
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Amazing that after 7000 years this 100+ megalith cromlech is standing (once again), and that it was only “discovered” in 1964. 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