воскресенье, 24 мая 2015 г.

An Unsolved Mystery

An Unsolved Mystery



Stonehenge is a massive stone monument located on a chalky plain north of the modern-day city of Salisbury, England. Research shows that the site has continuously evolved over a period of about 10,000 years. The structure that we call “Stonehenge” was built between roughly 5,000 and 4,000 years ago. 
The biggest of Stonehenge’s stones, known as sarsens, are up to 30 feet 9 meters tall and weigh 25 tons 22.6 metric tons on average. It is widely believed that they were brought from Marlborough Downs, a distance of 20 miles 32 kilometers to the north. 
Smaller stones, referred to as “bluestones”  weigh up to 4 tons . It’s unknown how people in antiquity moved them that far. Scientists have raised the possibility that during the last ice ageglaciers caried these bluestones closer to the Stonehenge area and the monument’s makers didn’t have to move them all the way from Wales. Water transport through raft is another idea that has been proposed but researchers now question whether this method was viable.
Stonehenge is a circle of enormous standing stones on Salisbury Plain in southern England. Construction occurred between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago. The purpose of these megaliths remains unclear. They could have formed a temple, an astronomical observatory or even a prehistoric musical instrument. The stones remain an engineering masterpiece, but archaeologists can only guess at the construction method.

I don't know why scientists have not figured out how Stonehenge was constructed yet but I think the construction of it is much simpler. This is what I think: 

The moving of the stones to the construction site is no doubt by some gigantic ´"machines" with WHEELS and a lot of men pushing and pulling.


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