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>Out-of-place artifacts[1] are cool. True :) Hadn't remembered this for some years, but your point above reminded me of it: There is a temple in Madurai (Tamil
by vram22 10y ago
>Out-of-place artifacts[1] are cool.
True :) Hadn't remembered this for some years, but your point above reminded me of it: There is a temple in Madurai (Tamil Nadu), or maybe another city in Tamil Nadu (which has tons of temples), where on the tower (gopuram) there are one or more carvings of a man (only the face) with a hat - like a Western hat. Had seen it as a kid when we went on a tour of South India. I remember my relatives saying that it could be that it depicted a Westerner, though the temple was made hundreds of years ago or more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopuram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopuram
- tmccrmck 10y agoThat reminds of the legend of the horsemen statue on the island of Corvo in the Azores. Purportedly the statue looked to be dressed in a Moorish style. Besides that, there's plenty of evidence of pre-Portuguese presence in the Azores. There are theories that everyone from the Phoenicians to the Greeks to the Chinese discovered the island before Portugal did.
- vram22 10y agoInteresting. I've also read in a few places that others from Europe reached the East coast of North America much before Columbus did. Vikings or others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson