The Enigma of the Great Menhir

The Enigma of the Great Menhir

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Pierre Pétrequin

Emmanuelle Vigier

Christian Obeltz

7000 years ago, the men who populated the shores of the Atlantic erected thousands of stones on which they engraved signs, long remained mysterious. An international team of researchers led by the anthropologist and archaeologist Serge Cassen (CNRS) managed to decipher this original symbolic language.

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