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{{Reading List | title = Historical Landmarks | text_align = center | article1 = Great Wall of China | image1 = 20200108 Great Wall of China guard house-7.jpg | description1 = The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials.
Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery.. Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument show that this central ...
"The Enduring Mystery of Stonehenge": It stands on a wide plain in southern England, a circular formation of over 160 massive stones, creating an endless mystery for historians. "The Mysteries of Devil's Triangles": discusses unexplained disappearances of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle and the Great Lakes.
[1] [2] Some claim that the site has a pre-Columbian European origin, but this is regarded as pseudoarchaeological. [3] Archaeologist David Starbuck has said: "It is widely believed that Goodwin may have 'created' much of what is visible at the site today." [4]: 106 The site was first dubbed Mystery Hill [5] [6] by William Goodwin.
The Stonehenge feature will reward you with a chance to. While digging around for some food (as usual), the Duke stumbled upon plans to build a magical version of Stonehenge in CastleVille, and it ...
This is the first evidence for any unambiguous alignment at Stonehenge (the solstice axis). The analysis of the spacing between the Q and R array, and that of the modified (inset) portal group (Fig.3) imply a shift from an angular splay of 9 degrees (i.e. 40 settings) to 12 degrees, the same as that of the later 30 Sarsen Circle.
The Summary. The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ...
John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument.