Built around the year 3100 B.C. Is one of the most famous prehistoric monument in Britain. The Aubrey Holes, a bank and a ditch; the circe of sarsens, towers of giant rocks and bluestones clustered around them. But how did all of these came here? Who built it? What does it mean?
There are a lot of questions about its magnificence but where do we find the answers?
Some studies show us that these rocks can only be found 240 km away from the construction, but how did they manage to carry 1.5 ton stones?
Some archeologist have tested their theories and although they seem be good ideas and they actually work, we don't know for sure which technique the actually used. And look at the structure, I want to see you trying to lift up a rock of that size and weight without trucks and nowadays technology. And the shape, these stones are carved perfectly to fit one next to another and then how was it that they got up there, on the top of the towers? Imagine a group of hundred people working hour after hour, day after day as a team to create one of the most amazing structures in our history.
But there are still some questions left. Why do they built it? What was it for? At the beginning the theory was, that they use it as an astronomic base, based on the position of sunrise and sunset during the summer and winter solstice. But then an African archeologist came and based on his culture he said stones represent the ancestors and wood the living, which actually made sense! Hundreds of small bone peaces where found around Stonehenge, which explain part of the theory, the fact that the bones belonged to a selected group of men shows that the circle belonged to a family, or the leaders of the group; however, this was just half of the story until they found the wooden ring a couple of miles away and both circles are connected to each other through a river.
Even though we have many possible answers we'll never be sure about the truth, and there's the mystery behind the rocks.
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