Fighting-age men are landing here and disappearing into the ether.
We don’t know who they are, where they’re from, or what they’re going to do here.
It’s a national emergency. But Burnham refuses to act.
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🦴 A skeleton in a cave. Nine thousand years old.
They tested his DNA. 🧬
And matched it to a man living half a mile away. 🇬🇧
In 1903, workers were digging a drainage channel inside a gorge in Somerset. They hit bone. A body. Curled up. Deep inside the rock.
He'd been there since before Stonehenge. Before the pyramids.
They called him Cheddar Man. 🧀
He hunted deer through forests that covered this island. He fished rivers that still run through the same valley today. And then he died. Alone. In a cave.
For a century, he sat behind glass. A museum piece. A curiosity. A name on a plaque.
Then in 1997, a scientist from Oxford had an idea. He took DNA from one of Cheddar Man's teeth. Then he went into the village. Walked into the local school. Swabbed the
cheeks of twenty residents.
And ran the tests.
🧬 One matched.
Adrian Targett. History teacher. Living half a mile from the cave.
Three hundred generations. Same family. Same valley. Nine thousand years. And the line never left.
He didn't know.
The longest unbroken connection between a living person and an ancient ancestor. Anywhere in the world.
Same hills. Same river. Same village. Half a mile from the cave.
You are the reason we can tell these stories. https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧