England’s Stonehenge: An Elusive Mystery

Technology is evolving and so is the world. You can get things done in minutes through your fingertips, unlike old days you can also transport heavy objects sooner than you anticipate.

Can you imagine how different things would be without smartphones and technology? Just travel back to ten years where keypad phones, fat computers, and landlines were common but now all we have is light and fast. Ten years ago we couldn’t transport things as easier as we do before. But five thousand years ago how did people transport such huge stones and made them standstill. A mystery right. A time when science wasn’t even developed and there was no proper civilization in place either.  So, how many people could transport stones almost 23 feet high? Can you at least imagine how they would stack one on top of the other?

Yes! Stonehenge is one of the most popular tourist destinations in England. These are also known as the Stone Age tombs. Stonehenge is a large group of megalithic rocks made of rare Bluestone material.  

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According to a team of researchers, stone age farmers near the Preseli Hills in Wales carved columns of dolerite, sometimes known as bluestone, from a local quarry and arranged them in a circle aligned to the equinox 5400 years ago.

So how did these huge rocks stand so high? How were these stones brought from one place to another during their construction? It still remains an elusive mystery.

 Tourists from all over the world visit this magnificent structure every year. Sarsen stones, grey megaliths towers around 6 meters tall and weighing 18 metric tonnes, make up the majority of the structure. Despite their significance, nothing is known about the 52 stones that survive from a total of approximately 80 that were constructed during the third millennium BCE.

The latest scanning of the stones has shown some lethal damage in the stone. The last restoration of the stone was done in the 1950s and now the work has begun again to ensure the monument stays safe.

As creepy and goosy as it is the history behind these stone placings is little to less nothing to know at all but if you ever going to England don’t miss visiting Stonehenge.

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