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The grandest of these tombs had openings cut in the wall. |
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To create side chambers where the most important bodies . |
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Could be laid out in aristocratic spaciousness like family vaults in a country church. |
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Unlike medieval knights, though, these grandees were buried with eagles and dogs, or even treasure. |
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The kind of thing that the Vikings who broke into these tombs thousands of years later were quick to filch. |
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In return, though, these early tomb raiders left their own legacy. |
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These wonderful graffiti，these runes were carved by the most skilled rune carver in the western ocean. |
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I bedded thorny here. Ingegirth is one horny bitch. |
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As for the Orcadian hoi polloi, well, they ranked space in a common chamber. |
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On a floor carpeted with the bones of hundreds of their predecessors. |
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A crowded waiting room to their afterworld. |
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For centuries, life at Skara Brae must have continued in much the same way. |
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But around 2,500 BC, the island climate seems to have got colder and wetter. |
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The red bream disappeared, and so did the stable environment the Orcadians had enjoyed for countless generations. |
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Fields were abandoned, the farmers and fishers migrated, leaving their stone buildings and tombs. |
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To be covered by layers of peat, drifting sand and finally grass. |
