Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument situated on Salisbury

Plain, Wiltshire, in southern England. The first monument of the place, whose
beginning dates back to the year 3100 a. C., it was a stone circle (henge)
approximately 110 meters in diameter. In archaeological terms, a henge is a
flat circular or oval area bounded by an embankment.

Stonehenge was a very important place because Stonehenge suggests that it

was designed for a special purpose, and the most accepted interpretation today
is that it was a prehistoric ritual center aligned with the movement of the Sun,
another theory suggests that it was built to serve as a funerary monument. The
evidence found ―exhumed bodies of men and women in equal numbers,
some children and incense containers― suggest that it was an elitist cemetery,
not for any type of person, but for politicians, religious or people of the
nobility. On the few bones found earlier, it was thought that they were bodies
buried later, but recent studies reveal that their antiquity dates back to the time
when the temple was first built.

Stonehenge is very famous because it is the most architecturally sophisticated

prehistoric stone circle in the world and because of its antiquity.

How was Stonehenge built? This question has occupied the minds of all those
who have approached the monument throughout history and even today there
is no absolute certainty about the method of construction. It is undoubtedly
one of the key elements of the "Stonehenge mystery" and has been the source
of some of the most colorful theories that would connect the origin of the
monument with magical powers or even beings from other planets.
And how could such an important work be carried out several thousand years
before Christ? The stones that make up the Stonehenge complex are masses of
several tons in weight, and it seems impossible to think how those people
could move them without roads and without machinery, with the added
aggravation that the quarries were not in nearby areas, even talking about that
they were brought from Wales.

Some interesting facts:

 Stonehenge World Heritage Site is huge (The Stonehenge part of the

World Heritage Site covers 2,600 hectares (6,500 acres) of chalk
downland and arable fields. It’s an area seven-and-a-half times as big as
Central Park in New York City.)

 The average Stonehenge sarsen weighs 25 tons (he largest stone, the
Heel Stone, weighs about 30 tons).

 The bluestones travelled 240km to Wiltshire from South Wales

(They were brought from the Preseli Hills in south-west Wales)