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Secret history of Stonehenge revealed

By T.K. Randall
November 29, 2011 · Comment icon 14 comments

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New studies of the ancient site reveal it was a place of worship even before the stones were erected.
A team of international archaeologists working at Stonehenge believe they have uncovered new details of its past and purpose. It is now believed that the site was used for ceremonies and rituals up to 500 years before the stone circle was built, most likely associated with sun worshipping.
Extraordinary new discoveries are shedding new light on why Britain’s most famous ancient site, Stonehenge, was built – and when. Current research is now suggesting that Stonehenge may already have been an important sacred site at least 500 years before the first Stone circle was erected.


Source: The Independent | Comments (14)




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Comment icon #5 Posted by Paracelse 13 years ago
The question is who built it. The Celts worshiped in Oak groves - not stone circles. According to their mythology it was built by a race a giants long before the Celts were here. Science has confirmed that it does predate the Celts. Besides, the Celtic calendar like so many other native cultures is lunar not solar, which Stonehenge is definitely connected to the later (solar). The culture who developed Stonehenge was definitely pre-Celtic and but the Celt worshiped the Sun as well as the Moon. The town of Lugdunum, today Lyon in France was build in homage of the Celtic God Lug. With Belenus th... [More]
Comment icon #6 Posted by DieChecker 13 years ago
From the OP: Virtually every square meter in a five square mile area surrounding the world most famous pre-historic monument will be examined geophysically to a depth of up to two metres, he says. I find that pretty impressive.
Comment icon #7 Posted by Paracelse 13 years ago
From the OP: I find that pretty impressive. UK's tax money at work
Comment icon #8 Posted by katesisco 13 years ago
Gavin Mendez's new book on Atlantis deals with this far greater history of Stonehenge. I was fascinated when I saw that dna showed that there was a central spot off the coast of Ireland (where the Rockall Rise is located now under water) and spread out in an eastward fan to Germany and Turkey. Salt mines for salting food to make it last so trade can be RESUMED.
Comment icon #9 Posted by skookum 13 years ago
I always thought it was a landing platform for a flying saucer.
Comment icon #10 Posted by Skeptic Chicken 13 years ago
To add my opinion. I thought they discovered that it was a temple of the dead? Like, they discovered skeletal remains of people who were sacrificed, namely a hunter who was shot dead with a flint arror through the skull. Didn't they also discover that when sound is repeated and played in harmony inside the stones, you begin to enter a trance like state? This is from Mystery Quest. Seemed alot more logical and had some good evidence than Monster Quest, so I can only assume it'd be partially true. So given this. People worshipped the sun and or stars. And as the ages progressed, they felt the ne... [More]
Comment icon #11 Posted by NikkiAidyn 13 years ago
Interesting. Thanks for the good read.
Comment icon #12 Posted by Karlis 13 years ago
Here is another article to add more information to the OP: Stonehenge Reveals New Clues of Ancient Worship Stonehenge may have been a place for sun worship long before the iconic stones were erected more than 5,000 years ago, according to archaeologists who are carrying out the biggest-ever virtual excavation. Using noninvasive technologies such as ground-penetrating radar and geophysical imaging, a team from the University of Birmingham's IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, known as VISTA, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in Vienn... [More]
Comment icon #13 Posted by PHFATY 13 years ago
Do you see them? The hard reset is coming to a FOEC5 thei sai nai LED
Comment icon #14 Posted by Bagabones 12 years ago
Stonehenge,one of many,we still practice the old ways today,now a days its called HALLOWEEN,we were pagans,people of the earth,natures cycles we understood,Stonehenge,place of the dead where we showed our respect to our ancestors,the other Stonehenge in same area,where they ended the ritual was the place of the living,renewal,crops birth celebration of life,basically our new year started.


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