This is an ancient monument of huge stone standing on the vast Sablisbury plains in England has captured our imaginations for centuries. It’s the most enigmatic pre-historic monument on earth.
What makes the structure at Stonehenge unique is the fact that for the first time they're shaping stones on a massive scale. Dating back as far as 2950B.C.,theories about who built Stonehenge have included the druids and the Greeks. Speculation as to its purpose, range from astronomy to a UFO landing site.
Now a ruin with many of the original stones fallen or removed, this site Sun attracts nearly five thousand tourists everyday.
现在,尽管很多巨石已经倒塌,或给搬走,但是这古迹仍然每天吸引着近五千名观光游客。
Around the same time as the ancient Egyptians were building the pyramids, the first stones arrived here at Stonehenge. The mystery of this stone is that they are only found in the Brescelly Mountains in south Wales, nearly 150 miles away.
It was a huge job to transport these stones from Wales, because originally there were about 80 of them here at Stonehenge weighing up to four tons each. Now, if I got m my car it would take me about five hours to dive all the way to Wales. But to those people, it would've been m enormous distance.
The stones were brought by boat from the mountains and pulled from the coast by sledge to the site.
巨石从大山里开采出来后,先用船只运抵海岸,然后再利用撬具从海岸运到现在的地址。
I think you need a minimum of about 150 people, simply to move one of these massive forty-ton stones.
仅仅是搬运这些重达四十吨的巨石,就需要大约150人。
Getting the stones to the site was an amazing feat, but building Stonehenge was much more complex. It is not just simply one stone piled on to top of another, they're joined together, this hole in the arch on here that's been pounded out using stone hammers, and that originally fitted on the top of that stone.
After nearly 5,000 years Stonehenge is still standing. We now know how it was built. The question "why" is a bit more problematic. Twenty century followers of ancient mystical beliefs are sure that Stonehenge has a connection with summer and winter solstices. "As a druid, as a priest of the land, I feel Stonehenge to be one of the key sacred temples in the world. Stonehenge evokes in us a connection between some deep ancestral intuitive soul and the power of nature around us."
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