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Hundreds of mysterious stone carvings

Posted on Monday 27 October 2003


A remote rainforest in Sulawesi, Indonesia is now at the centre of a study into hundreds of mysterious stone carvings that only a few foreigners in the world have seen. No one knows who built them or why, but the "megaliths" are believed to be built anywhere from 500 to 2,000 years ago.