[HN Gopher] Archaeologists Unearth 3k-Year-Old Wishing Well in G...
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       Archaeologists Unearth 3k-Year-Old Wishing Well in Germany
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-01-19 21:52 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
        
       | zetazzed wrote:
       | Ancient Celtic culture was really into the practice of casting
       | valuable objects into bodies of water - apparently this was a
       | central religious practice for them.
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       | So what did the Romans do when they conquered Celtic
       | territory?They would auction off the rights to dredge a captured
       | lake and keep its treasure, Storage Wars style. Truly a
       | pioneering capitalist civilization!
        
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