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6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @03:46PM from the nobody-knows-who-they-were-or-what-they-were-doing dept.

duh P3rf3ss3r writes "National Geographic reports that a 6000-year-old tomb complex on 200 hectares (500 acres) has been discovered on the Salisbury Plain just 24 km (15 miles) from Stonehenge. The site has come as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude remained. The site, fully 1000 years older than Stonehenge, has been called 'Britain's oldest architecture.'"

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Surprised? by Sardak · 2009-06-17 16:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

The site has come as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude remained.

If they believed a few remained, why are they so surprised to find one of them?