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September 2, 2026

The Oracle of the Dead at Ephyra: A Famous Site That's Probably a Farmhouse

The guidebooks call it the Necromanteion — a labyrinth where pilgrims were drugged in the dark and shown the dead by machinery. The excavator's reconstruction is thrilling, hugely influential, and almost certainly wrong.

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