What is the secret of Stonehenge?
Who put up the circle of stone near Salisbury in England?
Why did people 4,500 years ago drag 35-ton rocks mile after mile and then place them to align with the sun on two special days of the year?
For centuries people have puzzled over Stonehenge – seeing it as the work of Merlin, or Druids, or even aliens from outer space. Most recently, archaeologists have come up with a completely new idea: Stonehenge was one-half of a pair of circles that marked the lands of the living and of the dead. What If Stones could Speak. They would certainly have an amazing story to tell.
Only some archaeologists believe the ‘living and the dead’ theory, for that’s all it is – a theory based on the fact that site on which Stonehenge was eventually built attracted casual cremation burials for a few hundred years. The iconic stone monument that most people think of when they hear the name ‘Stonehenge’ was constructed at the end of this period, when burials were being placed under earthen barrows.