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komali2 · 9 years ago
Well, that's a clickbait title if I ever saw one, but it is a good article. It's basically a summary of everything we know up to now about Stonehenge. If you haven't read about Stonehenge in a couple years, there's some good recent work done that's worth catching up on.

From the article itself:

>But a coherent story may be beginning to emerge. That has been particularly true over the last decade.

Basically "here's the new stuff we've got on Stonehenge."

fluxby · 9 years ago
Nothing was cracked really. Still no explanation of who built it and how it was built.

The fact that it was a religious area for many centuries has been known for a long time.

Same can be said about pyramids in Mexico and great pyramid in Egypt, as well as many other sites like Pumapunku, etc.

Ancient mega structures are one of the biggest mysteries of our world.

pvg · 9 years ago
We heave a pretty good idea who built the pyramids and why since they wrote about it.
fluxby · 9 years ago
Not really. Which pyramids are you talking about? What we have are some lukewarm explanations which do not hold up to scientific scrutiny of all the historic sources. If you are talking about the Great Pyramyd of Cheops in Giza then plenty of evidence show that Cheops had nothing to do with building that pyramid. He was a Stone Age monarch at the time when writing and mathematics have not been developed in Egypt. The pyramid has no indication anywhere on it that it belonged to Cheops, one would think that if a guy spent over 20 years and killed over 20,000 slaves building it, then he'd put his name on it. :)
bahjoite · 9 years ago
> In other words, the landscape was used in religious or ceremonial processions related to the monuments.

Surely it was the Glastonbury Festival venue of the day. There were even sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.

twic · 9 years ago
Not to mention bearded patriarchs delivering messages of spiritual renewal to the rapturous masses [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN07fnvGomo

JoshMnem · 9 years ago
Anyone interested in Stonehenge should also check out this book: http://www.lynnekelly.com.au/the-memory-code/

It goes into some new ideas about what it was used for.

Siemer · 9 years ago
Ah, I thought it was only 46 miles from Wales! [ 1 ]

[ 1 ] https://youtu.be/mbyzgeee2mg

ajarmst · 9 years ago
"We found that there were some other structures near here and it's a bit older than we originally thought. Also, some of the rock came from quite far away. We still have a lot of questions." isn't really what comes to mind when the title claims that a mystery has been cracked.
apokryptein · 9 years ago
Interesting read -- thanks.