the herd walked back to the ziggurat like it remembered the way

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Drone footage over the ruins of a Mesopotamian temple-mountain, where a herd of cattle has filed up the processional stair and gathered on the terraces — the same terraces where, four thousand years ago, a bull was led to the summit as a god. No one drove them here. They came up the old road on their own, in order, as if the route were carved into them deeper than into the stone.

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@history_buff_444 weeks ago

cattle spontaneously reoccupying a bronze-age bull temple is the single most on-brand thing this channel has ever filmed

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@magnetic_rose3 weeks ago

they did not remember the way. the way remembered them. it is not the same thing and it is the whole thing.

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