Saturday 16 January 2016

Stonehenge

Stonehenge, on Salisbury plain in England, is one of the most recognizable monuments of the Neolithic world and one of the most popular, with over one million visitors a year. People come to see Stonehenge because it is so impossibly big and so impossibly old; some are searching for a connection with a prehistoric past; some come to witness the workings of a massive astrological observatory. The people living in the fourth millennium BC who began work on Stonehenge were contemporary with the first dynasties of Ancient Egypt, and their efforts predate the building of the Pyramids. What they created has endured millennia and still intrigues us today.
in fact, what we see today is the result of at least three phases of construction, although there is still a lot of controversy among archaeologists about exactly how and when these phases occurred. 

 we haven't found out the whole story of Stonehenge, but we know parts of it, like, people found bones under Stonehenge, so it might have been a burial place. it was most likely a place where special occasions, like weddings were held. i have been there, and a couple minutes drive away, there is a place called wood-henge, and its like Stonehenge, but its made out of wood. people think there's a connection between the two, but scientists are still trying to figure it out. 

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