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This Massive Hillside Figure Has Mystified Historians for Centuries. Now, Donations Have Secured the Surrounding Landscape (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[-] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Imagine people spending this much time to discover that era's equivalent of dickbutt :>

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Has his dick and balls always been out?

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant

The earliest drawing we have of it is from the 1700s and the twig and berries were there. Some of the mid 1800's drawings omitted it though.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Either I never noticed or the history channel photoshopped it out every time they did a piece about him.

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