{"id":58886,"date":"2025-03-19T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58886"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:06:13","slug":"sunken-ancient-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58886","title":{"rendered":"Sunken Ancient Carving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-58887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sunken_Ancient_Carving.jpg\" alt=\"Sunken Ancient Carving\" width=\"612\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sunken_Ancient_Carving.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sunken_Ancient_Carving-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ancient stone circle dating back over 9,000 years lies hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan, raising more questions than answers. Alongside the carefully arranged stones, archaeologists discovered carvings of mastodons, megaloceros, and even a cobra\u2014an animal that never lived in North America. How did these ancient people know about such creatures? Did they have knowledge lost to time? Often compared to Stonehenge, this underwater site challenges what we think we know about early civilizations and their connections. Whether it was a sacred site, a gathering place, or something entirely different, its mystery remains as deep as the lake itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient stone circle dating back over 9,000 years lies hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan, raising more questions than answers. Alongside the carefully arranged stones, archaeologists discovered carvings of mastodons, megaloceros, and even a cobra\u2014an animal that never lived in North America. How did these ancient people know about such creatures? Did they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58886\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunken Ancient Carving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58888,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions\/58888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}