'While embracing the happiness and sorrows of lifeโs experiences, we etch our covenants indelibly upon our souls, and we keep our eyes focused heavenward, toward the glorious destination awaiting us. We know the divine attributes we seek will not all be perfected in this life. Eternal marriage is an eternal journey.'
- Neil L Andersen
๐ฌ๐ง A British Bronze Age family sat down to dinner.
Their house caught fire and fell into the marsh.
Three thousand years on, their porridge is still in its bowl.
Cambridgeshire. The Fenland. Around 1,000 BC, a British family had built a village on wooden stilts above the marsh. Nine round houses linked by a timber walkway. One evening they sat down to eat.
๐ฅ The thatch caught. The fire moved fast. They grabbed what they could and ran. Their footprints sank into the mud below the platform.
The houses collapsed into the marsh. And the marsh held everything where it fell.
Three thousand years later, Cambridge archaeologists drained the silt. The village rose back up.
The bowl of porridge was still on the table, the wooden spoon still in it. The bread was still in the oven. The wheels were still in the shed. The dog was still by the fire.
๐ Wheels of solid oak. Glass beads worked by hand. Finely woven cloth. Bronze axes and spears and sickles. Tools any modern carpenter would recognise.
Britain's Bronze Age Pompeii. Excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in 2015 and 2016.
A British family lived here. They were not primitive. They were us.
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