It really messes with me that there’s a US state and also a country named Georgia (and there’s also South Georgia which is off the coast of Antarctica).
Yeah, I knew that but I still wasn’t sure until the third mention, when I went back and started over with the correct mindset. My other comment is that this really isn’t uplifting news, it actually awful, even though these girls found each other.
Yeah. When I first heard about South Georgia I was confused because I wasn’t sure if they were referring to the southern part of the state or country… But it was neither. It’s an island about 1,000 miles off the coast of Antarctica.
Thats what happens to a city taken back by nature and lying undisturbed for 500+ years… there is a reason why the only preserved Roman ruin cities are in the Sahara or next to the Mount Vesuvius
Great article about a very sad situation. But glad steps are being taken to try to fix it for those affected.
Maybe it’s just me, but these two gals don’t look like identical twins. Sisters? Definitely. But some of their facial features are different enough that you can easily tell them assist from each other. And I don’t think it’s just down to lighting or makeup.
Given my son was born recently, this explains why the hospital had so much security, id checks, locked check points, and so on. We were asked our names and birthdays almost every conversation, even.
It’s an excellent outcome for these twins for sure, but holy fuck:
Tamuna discovered a black market in adoption that stretched across Georgia and went on from the early 1950s to 2005.
She believes it was run by organised criminals and involved people from all sections of society, from taxi drivers to people high up in the government. Corrupt officials would fake the documents needed for the illegal adoptions.
“The scale is unimaginable, up to 100,000 babies were stolen. It was systemic,” she says.
The settlement is right at the border of what would be controlled by the Inca government, two millenniums later. It shows that there’s some decent access to the region from the west than you’d be led to believe, with the Andes in the way.
As such, if they find other cities further east, I’m predicting that, culturally speaking, they’ll resemble nothing this one; even if they happen to be roughly the same size.
People ate maize and sweet potato, and probably drank “chicha”, a type of sweet beer.
“If you don’t have chicha, any small thing will do.” (reference to a certain song)
Serious now. Potentially yucca too - it grows right next door, and if they got maize from North America then they likely traded for crops.
Love how ‘everyone just knew’ there weren’t any large ancient civilizations in the Amazon even though they’d never bothered looking. Glad someone is finally setting the record straight.
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