Mysterious building discovered at planned site of new airport in Greece

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/17/mysterious-building-discovered-at-planned-site-of-new-airport-in-greece.html

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[theophrastus]

Let’s hope they delay the airport long enough to dig for a half bull half man skeleton (“labyrinth!” “maze!” “labyrinth!” “maze!”)

[Purplecat]

does it happen to have a very complex series of corridors inside the structure?

EDIT–

Coca-Cola HBC

[anon43374320]

[MonkeyT12]

It might have been an important piece of civic architecture, central to the lives of a people we know almost nothing about. Then again, it could have been a strip club.

[catsidhe]

@pesco

"It may have been periodically used for possibly ritual ceremonies …

Translation: “Fucked if we know. ”

Even for that famous confession of ignorance, that’s an impressive amount of added equivocation. “may have … periodically … possibly… perhaps …”.

[Phil_FR]

@pesco

It may have been periodically used for possibly ritual ceremonies involving consumption of food, wine, and perhaps offerings," the Ministry said in a statement.

In other words, an early Greek fraternity

[catsidhe]

The ancient Greeks called that a Symposium.

[Tickyy]

That is a large structure for such an ancient time period.

[RickMycroft]

“Ancient alien airport site discovered!”

[zoidberg]

Am I missing a source link?

[wolfman_al2]

That is the problem in ancient countries like Greece or Italy. You can´t build anywhere without finding something historycal. The new subway in Thessaloniki, for example, was delayed for years due to archeological finds.

[anon33176345]

Is that a device for knitting gloves?

@zoidberg

Am I missing a source link?

Antepenultimate word, third para.

[Robert_Matthews]

@pesco

ritual ceremonies involving consumption of food, wine, and perhaps offerings

Funny how that’s phrased to make it sound alien and unknowable when it’s a literal description of many church services these days.

[gabe_oakes]

Are you suggesting strip clubs aren’t important pieces of civic architecture?

[Doctor_Faustus]

@pesco

The structure was on a hillside that was slated for a radar station

@pesco

The round structure, built by the island’s Minoan culture

Clearly the Minoans beat them to erecting a radar station at the site.

[generic_name]

I’m pretty sure the people who built ancient structures like this would look at modern humans and think WE were the aliens.

[catsidhe]

People keep saying that sort of thing, but not once has a UFO turned up to take me back to my home planet.