Stonehenge
They call it the eighth wonder of the world. The ruins of Stonehenge, the unique facility located at 130 km. southwest of London - in the Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge to the time of the Stone and Bronze Ages, several centuries before the fall of Troy. The construction of Stonehenge coincides with the flowering of the Minoan civilization of Crete. Before Stonehenge to become old, Israel was in captivity in Egypt and from there derived from Moses. Not yet been built Lion Gate at Mycenae and Akhenaten was not carried its reforms. And here, in another world in another dimension, the magnificent stone civilization of Western Europe is already bearing results.
Stonehenge has been studied by dozens of scientists. The joint efforts of historians, archaeologists, geologists, anthropologists, chemists, engineers do not lead to answers to how, when and what was built giant stone in Salisbury Plain. Left unanswered the question WHY? Anyone caught in Stonehenge, I think over what was its purpose. On ancient stone inscriptions no, construction notes and bookmarks ... anything that might tell about their origin or at least give some direction for further research. Stonehenge is so old that even in ancient times its true history has been forgotten. Greek and Roman authors barely mention it. When the Romans came to Britain, Stonehenge never impressed them. Rome had its beautiful temples and Egypt - the majestic pyramids are in good condition unlike this group of "hewn stones".
To the XII century, Stonehenge was tightly surrounded by dogatki and legends. Anglo-normanat Vase announced that its name translates as "hanging stones" and Hantindongski Henry added that the name is fully deserved, as "stones, as if suspended in the air." "Stonehenge - where the stones were placed incredible size, forming a group of doors, so that a gate rises to another and no one has been raised clear how such a height and why." Attempts to explain the origin of Stonehenge miracle rise many myths. In the early seventeenth century, Stonehenge was visited by King James I. Ancient stones made him so impressed that he ordered the famous architect Inigo Jones to draw a plan of Stonehenge and the entire facility to ascertain how it was built. Jones, thoroughly researched Stonehenge, but does not leave any notes about it. English architect Stonehenge comparing the models of ancient architecture and prove that this is a Roman temple: "The memory of the beauty that the ancient Romans in the era of greatness, gave its facilities ... Because of their expertise in all arts and sciences ... I come to concluded that Stonehenge was built by the Romans and they alone, could be its creator ... "So to this day legends intertwine, builders are hypotheses and theories.
However, what actually is Stonehenge? Stonehenge consists of four stone circles. The outer is a vertically placed poles, each of which lies a flat stone slab, coupled with other boards in the circle. Each pillar weighs on average about 25 tons, and the plates are 700 kg. The second round consists of relatively small single stones (mengiri). In the third and fourth non-confined circles, resembling a horseshoe, a group of stones. Each group consists of two vertical plates, weighing 40 tons, on which is placed on a horizontal plate. Of giant stone blocks our distant ancestors built stone piazza, enclosed in a circle. The entire facility is enclosed in the Stonehenge huge ground shaft, surrounded by a moat, which has remained to this day. And all this carefully and geometrically exact proportion recorded in the area of tranquil landscape. Scientists found that these stone blocks were delivered to Salisbury from 380 km away, where the nearest quarry (South Wales). Even today, we will need special equipment, healthy eyes, and overloads truck platforms, giant cranes and ways to move such weights, and three thousand years before such things were not.
There are many assumptions about who created these megalithic structures. It is believed that megaliths were the work of giants, which play can carry huge multi-ton stones. The ancient Greeks, for whom the history of megaliths disappeared in the misty past, believed that the work of the one-eyed Cyclops. There was even a version in which these stones can be moved independently with the help of the "magic word" or in the music of Orpheus. Astronomy professor Gerard Hopkins believes that Stonehenge was an astronomical observatory of ancient people. Astrokompyutar a kind which enables the reading of the situation on the moon, sun and stars during the year. Professor J. Mitchell, insists that this is a stone model of the universe, another archaeologist says it is a fixed location for links and contacts between prehistoric humans and space aliens.
A great sensation was historical l and it is UFO activity in this region and the emergence of numerous pictographs in crop fields. The idea that people from distant planets remind us of ourselves and the significance of Stonehenge becomes more tempting.
