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Jul 27 2012 07:49am
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"The sculptors certainly knew what lions looked like," Summers told LiveScience in an interview. He said that both archaeological and ancient written records indicate that the Asiatic lion, now extinct in Turkey, was still very much around, some even being kept by the Hittites in pits.


It's definitely neat and I like the romantic notion that these two were guarding a natural spring, but I don't see much of a mystery here outside of use.
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Jul 28 2012 04:21pm
people going treasure hunting and destroying ancient carvings like that show how retarded people are.
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Jul 29 2012 02:58am
i like how people assume everything has a purpose from the past. in 2000 years are people going to uncover garden gnomes and be like, OMG THESE WERE USED TO WARD OFF EVIL PEOPLE WERE SO DUMB BACK THEN!!!
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Jul 29 2012 05:12am
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i like how people assume everything has a purpose from the past. in 2000 years are people going to uncover garden gnomes and be like, OMG THESE WERE USED TO WARD OFF EVIL PEOPLE WERE SO DUMB BACK THEN!!!


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