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"Because they often went into battle naked"

Summer was too intrepid to blush, but she did roll her eyes and stare at the floor

"Which brings us back around to the Celtic artifacts we found on Navidad Bank," said Dirk seriously "If they weren't being transported aboard a ship three thousand years later, where did they come from?"

"And what about the room and chambers we found that were carved from the rock?" added Summer

"Are you sure they were carved from the rock and not stones laid one on the other?" Perlmutter questioned

Dirk looked at his sister "I suppose it's poss

ible The encrustation could easily have covered the cracks between the stones"

"It wasn't like the Celts to carve chambers out of solid rock They rarely built structures from stone," said Perlmutter "It may have been there were no trees to fell as lumber when Navidad Bank rose above the sea Tropical palms, for example, because of their curved and fiber trunks, were not practical for livable structures"

"But how could they have crossed six thousand miles of ocean in eleven hundred BC?"

"A tough question," Perlmutter admitted "Those who lived on the Atlantic shores were a seafaring people, often called 'people of the oars' They are known to have sailed into the Mediterranean froends of Celts crossing the Atlantic, other than possibly Saint Brendan, the Irish priest, whose voyage of seven years is thought by many to have reached the east coast of America"

"When did this the voyage occur?" Dirk asked

"Sometime between 520 and 530 ad"

"Fifteen hundred years too late for our find," said Summer

Dirk reached down and petted Fritz, who promptly sat up and licked his hand "We seem to strike out with every pitch"

Suo from here?"