Going on a trip to the old lady of Britain, it is absolutely impossible to ignore the most ancient monument in England - the mysterious Stonehenge. Perhaps, not a single monument in the world was so stubborn in its unwillingness to reveal its secrets. A lot of scientific works and pseudo-scientific articles are tried to give an answer about the authorship of this structure, but no one has reached the truth to this day. Today, we suggest you take a virtual trip to Stonehenge in the UK .
The Riddle of Stonehenge
To see with your own eyes the sacred stones of Stonehenge will have to go to the Salisbury Plain, which is located in Wilshire County. The fields of this plain are also famous for the fact that the grasses on them from time to time are added to huge intricate pictures.
Despite the diversity of research conducted in Stonehenge using the most accurate means, no one was able to accurately answer how old he was. It is only known that the construction of this giant structure was conducted in several stages and stretched, in total, for almost two millennia. According to the generally accepted version, the grandiose construction was started neither much nor little - in the Neolithic era, for 3 millennium BC. Some scientists are inclined to shift the date of the beginning of work to the point in 5 thousand years BC, while other representatives of the academic world estimate the age of this structure in absolutely fantastic 140 thousand years. But, as already mentioned above, Stonehenge does not intend to open the secret of his age.
Another mystery, stirring the minds of the scientific world, lies in the authorship of this giant structure. There are a lot of versions on this subject, from the ancient druids to the intervention of extraterrestrial civilizations. Whatever it was, the work was done tremendously. What is worth only the work to deliver giant stone slabs from quarries located more than 300 km from the construction site. Even with today's level of technology, this would not be so easy to do, but what to say about unknown ancient builders. In addition, whoever built Stonehenge, he needed to have the skills of a good manager - because to coordinate the work of many people for a long time is not easy.
But all the previous riddles of Stonehenge fade before his main secret - the appointment. There have been many uncounted versions of why ancient people needed to abandon their daily lives and give their forces to such global construction. One of the versions of why Stonehenge was built, attributed to him the functions of a huge necropolis, that is, a place for burial of the dead. But, first, grave monuments could be made more modest, and, secondly, burials on the local territory appeared much later in time.
Another version connects the orientation of the stones of this megalithic structure and the location of the heavenly bodies. That is, Stonehenge is already attributed to the functions of the observatory. In favor of this version, says the choice of a place for its construction, and the fact that Stonehenge was abandoned just at the time when the earth's axis was displaced as a result of the strongest earthquake in the territory of modern Greece .
The third theory says that Stonehenge is in fact a huge symbol of the unification of tribes that once inhabited the territory of modern Britain. Say, reaching the world tribes did not find another way to note how many centuries in a row to drag the hills and plains of huge stones, and then with great difficulty piling them on each other.
