A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge
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Re: A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge
#2Interesting read -- thanks.
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#3Nothing 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.
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#4Well, 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."
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#5Nothing 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.
We heave a pretty good idea who built the pyramids and why since they wrote about it.
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#6Nothing 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.
We heave a pretty good idea who built the pyramids and why since they wrote about it.
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. :)
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
We heave a pretty good idea who built the pyramids and why since they wrote about it.
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…
The idea that pyramid belonged to Cheops comes from Herodotus who travelled to Egypt long after Cheops, and in fact what he wrote down is an urban legend from the local folk, because no historic Egyptian documents could verify who built the great pyramid.
There are other much earlier historic accounts about the great pyramid from Arab historians. Who have a very different story about the pyramid.
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#8Anyone 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.
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#9"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.
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#10> 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.