"Our high-resolution ground penetrating radar data has revealed an amazing row of up to 90 standing stones, a number of which have survived after being pushed over, and a massive bank placed over the stones," said professor Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology.
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"In the east up to 30 stones, measuring up to size of 4.5 x 1.5 x 1 meters (14.7 x 5 x 3.3 feet), have survived below the bank whereas elsewhere the stones are fragmentary or represented by massive foundation pits," he said.
The newly discovered structures are believed to be 4,500 years old.
Questions also arise about the landscape the builders of Stonehenge inhabited and how they changed this with the building of new monuments during the third millennium BC.
My out of left field idea is that they were built, using the sun to predict the seasons for crop planting purposes.
You watch the discovery channel too much.
Personally I think it was more of a mythology or ritual thing, Moving those large heavy blue stones hundreds of miles seems like a lot of trouble just to see the summer solstice or even other astronomical events. People did crazy things in those days(2-3 thousand BC) for silly religious reasons, just look at the pyramids!
Personally I think it was more of a mythology or ritual thing, Moving those large heavy blue stones hundreds of miles seems like a lot of trouble just to see the summer solstice or even other astronomical events. People did crazy things in those days(2-3 thousand BC) for silly religious reasons, just look at the pyramids!
What are you talking about, the pyramids were built by the Goa'uld Apophis.
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"Superhenge" found buried near Stonehenge (Durrington Walls)
