HYSTORY

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire in the plain of Salisbury in the English country; Stonehenge is composed of earthworks, big rectangular blocks, monoliths; and it has a large and circular group of stones around.

Stonehenge was constructed in the three phases every phase had a time of building of many years ago more than thirty million hours of labour for this reason, that it was constructed with a big human sacrifice or sacrifice of the astronomy.

These stones are probably the most important prehistoric monument in all Britain and it has been a touristy place of many people from earliest times for its strange and surprising architecture.

Stonehenge is undoubtedly the megalithic the most extraordinary and enigmatic monument in the world.

It is a real mystery to know who the creator of the stones that had 1.845 years of antiques was and how it was built.

This monument has been victim of plunders by inhabitants of the zone, for this reason in this monument it is under special protection from state.

MYTHS

About of Stonehenge there are some myths related with death, astronomy treatments, monument to the fertility. People said that the stones doing fertile couples by sleeping in this place but the more outstanding are:

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY: This place was used as observatory; these stones are aligned so that it can predict eclipses of sun, the phases of the moon. Used as an astronomical calendar and predicting the seasons, too.

RELIGIOUS TEMPLE FUNERAL MONUMENT: The Mayas have crossed the ocean for giving worship to the sun.

The monks Tibetans, the Australian aborigines doing the rites of sanatorium.

In this place a religious group burying them dead sand to practise rites.

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MORE ABOUT STONEHENGE

Of agree with the studies of some archeologists the construction of Stonehenge was realized in three phases with a difference between these of 1.400 years B.C.

The beginning of the construction was approximately around the 3,100 B.C, with the demarcation of the outer circle of 110 mts of diameter made in clay or plaster of marine origin.

The positioning of these enormous stones take place for the first time around the 2.200 B.C, with rocks of more of 4 mts of height, 2 cm of width, 1 mts of thickness and 25 tons of weight.

The interesting is to know how the stones were transported if the site of origin of these stones were to 30 km of distance of the place where they were found.

The conclusion of the construction was assumes towards 1.930 B.C, age for which the stones could to be raise in several occasions. The last signs found are of the age of the Roman Empire towards the century VII B.C, time in which those were used for last time.

The original construction of this monument was a circular ditch and many circular stones with 56 holes a ring around its perimeter.

The first stone place in that site was the Heel stone, 200 years later 80 blocks were bluestones transported from a quarry almost 200 miles after of the mountains; people said that this stones were transported for bags through the away along the Welsh coast and of local rivers and finally be dragged around the place, these stones were put the central circle.

THE LAST NEWS STONEHENGE

For two weeks expert archeologists were reaching investigation of the mystery of Stonehenge.

Both are convinced that this place was a site of healing where assisted people from the most remote sites. The archeologists expect to find answers in the death since some of the human opposing remains are presented by broken bones and other ailments.

Besides they have confirmed that many of these persons crossed big distances to come to the southwest of England.

The archeologists were trying to recover fragments of original stones since they think that those saved a secret for more than of 4.500 years.

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