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</html><description>Even more remarkable than the ancient town's unique fortifications or its "peculiar burial positions and objects found in the graves," of course, is that this settlement was built and occupied by humans centuries before the creation of the universe. And not only did these Neolithic Bulgarians construct huge walls without "the wheel and cart," their community also seems to have survived Noah's flood.</description><thumbnail_url>http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/slacktivist/files/2012/11/thankgod1.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
