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Stonehenge

Moving on to another ancient discovery,let's discuss the magnificence and mystery of Stonehenge.Three kilometers west of a town called XX stands a large,tall stone ruin known as Stonehenge.This unique monument has stood over five thousand years in an open downland of XX plain in Southern England.Stonehenge is not a single stucture,but it is consists of a series of earth,wood and stone instructures that were revised and remodeled over thousnads of years.How were the stones moved into place?No one knows exactly.But it is definite that it took a lot of new muscle power and numerous men to move this heavy stones in place.The next logical question might be:why was stonehenge built?Well,to answer that question,we can look at the findings of an 18th century British scholar who noticed the horseshoe of great stones and horseshoe of 19 smaller stones,called bulestones opened up in the direction of a midsummer sunrise.He concluded that these stones were placed not accidentally,but deliberately positioned and planned ,so that on midsummer's morning the sun rose directly over the Heel Stone and the first ray shone into the centre of the monument beteen the open arms of the horseshoe arrangement.This discovery has had a tremendous impact on how Stonehenge has been interpreted.Both XX in 18 century and XX,a  British astronomer and scientist, in the 20th of century,believed that this alignment implied a ritualistic connection with sun worship. Their conclutions led to the belief that Stonehenge was bulit as a temple to the sun. Nowadays,an anstronomer named XX disagrees with XX and XX conclutions and instead argues that Stonehenge is not simply ligned with solar and lunar astronomical.But can be used to predict other events such eclipse.In a nutshell,he believes that Stonehenge was not built as a temple.Instead,it is built as a astronomical calculator.