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Asbostos on Aug 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Submerged Monolith Near Sicily: Evidence for Mes...

I didn't see any discussion of this in the article, but could it have just fallen off a ship, maybe from the Romans or something? It looks like the only dating they've done so far is of the area it was found in, not the monolith itself.

jccooper on Aug 7, 2015 [–]

It seems to have been made from stone from a nearby structure. It would have been underwater by the time anybody with ships came by.

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