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Old 08-05-2018, 12:23 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
I was going to start a new thread for this but it's on-topic here.

Youtube blew my mind, again:

Unfortunately, as amazing as that would be, it's not real. https://www.thehindu.com/features/me...cle7310014.ece

He is too cavalier with the evidence, and he I guess accidentally deceives his viewers by deceiving himself about the temple's renovation history. It was renovated in the 1920s.

But there sure were ancient wheels, and not just in India. On the Pontic-Caspian steppe Indo-Europeans also had them thousands of years ago. And those eight-spoke VX and HX wheels we admire here sometimes reflect an ancient design.

The ancient Celtic God Taranis had a wheel as a central symbol. He is sometimes considered the Celt's Zeus or Thor, depending on what you read:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranis

Check out the wheels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara...ive_wheels.jpg
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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