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The earliest Europeans spent hours making salt bricks behind huge stone walls, archaeologists reckon after excavating the oldest known town in Europe. These early metropolitan Europeans also tended to cut their dead in half before burying them with pottery and copper artifacts in "ritual pits" found outside the modern-day town …

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  1. Captain DaFt

    Obvious

    The thick protecting wall and practice of cutting the dead in half before burial show that the ancient Europeans were guarding against zombie incursions.

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  2. Lars Silver badge
    Pint

    Salt

    There is a very nice book about the history of salt. The name is simply Salt.

    But this "Salt was as precious as gold" was never true if one wants to be pedantic.

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    1. asdf
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      Joke

      Re: Salt

      By volume or weight?

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  3. John Hawkins

    'Walled community'?

    Is that like a gated community or something? Guess they might have had a few problems with the visiting Northwestern Europeans outside the gates, dragging their knuckles and looking for cheap alcohol even then.

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      Re: 'Walled community'?

      Were they wearing posh Burberry hats?

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  4. lanzz

    Don't believe everything Bulgarian archaelogists say

    This coming after finding Joan the Baptist's remains and a vampire burial? Take everything you hear from Bulgarian scientists with, ahem, a grain of salt.

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