There
have no any individual who has never heard about Stonehenge. I guess it’s one of the most popular mysteries. Stonehenge is a megalithic tombstone on the Salisbury Plain in
Southern England, composed mostly of 30 upright stones (each over ten feet tall
and weighing up to 45 tons), allied in a circle, with 30 lintels (6 tons each)
perched horizontally atop the sarsens in a constant circle.
There is also a central circle composed of similar stones, also constructed in post & lintel fashion. We can say that there are a lot of great monuments all over the world; many of them are very interesting.
There is also a central circle composed of similar stones, also constructed in post & lintel fashion. We can say that there are a lot of great monuments all over the world; many of them are very interesting.
Some
have told that Stonehenge was built
by Druids, but we do not really know much more about the builders. The
archaeology points to a structure date between 5,000 & 3,000 years ago, so
it was built even before the first metal tools were used by humankind. Regardless
of who built the Stonehenge stone
monument , the design & construction must be involved thousands of people.
To pull huge stones from Marlborough Downs, thirty kilometers to the south of Stonehenge, would have been pretty a
feat. And how was it possible to erect those stones. It’s an amazing feat of
engineering & there are many legends that reflect the inability to explain
how the heavy stones could have ever been transported by ancient humans. Stonehenge is even mentioned within
Arthurian legend, which names Merlin as the engineer.
One
more interesting thing is that, the Stonehenge
is angled such that on the equinoxes & the solstices, the sun is rising
over the horizon appears to be perfectly placed between gaps in the megaliths.
This is no doubt not an accident & probably contributed to the stories of
its mysterious origins.
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