#hiddenstructures

The Shell Grotto, Margate (swipe for more). First mentioned in a newspaper report of 1838, previously unknown, discovered under a suburban house on a back street, with only anecdote and rumour to suggest who built it and why. A Victorian folly? A Mithraic temple? A Templar bolt-hole? A Margate branch of the Hellfire Club? Whatever the explanation, a fantastically strange, otherworldly place. #shellgrotto #margate #folly #temple #grotto #shellmosaic #subterranean #thanet #kent #archaeology #localhistory #psychogeography #myth #folklore #hiddenstructures #subterraneanbritain

Reposted from @voiceoftheancestors - Ethiopia is a place that many scholars and historians call the motherland inside the motherland. It's home to the oldest human remains ever found, as well as some of the oldest Civilizations and man made structures. One of the most fascinating structures in Ethiopia and all the world for that matter are the Church's of Lalibela. Believed to be built around the 12th century A.D. theses 11 rock-hewn churches are built underground cut from a single stone. Built by King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela who set out to construct a 'New Jerusalem', after Muslim conquests halted Christian pilgrimages to the holy Land. Buliding them underground in order to hide them from foreign invaders. The church's of Lalibela still remain to this day one of the wonders of the world. As evidence we come from people who were engineering geniuses. 🔥✊🏿 (Follow: @voiceoftheancestors)• • #Lalibela #HiddenStructures #VoiceOfTheAncestors - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BuvSXbCFfaU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hk83u3bbdct2