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Stonehenge | Exploring the Mysteries Behind This Ancient Wonder

🕑 Added 2025-09-01 07:00:38 +0000 UTC

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Milkasaurous

It was the Jersey Devil...

Joshua Buenaflor

It annoys me that, if these guys put thousands of years of work into technology advanced instead of making this, WE now would be living in the stuff we think of the future as. Instead, now were here learning about some rocks

Michael M

Also a quick note that "druid" was not a term for only clerics. It was coined by the Romans to refer to *all* the intelligencia of the Britains; clerics would just be one example. It would have been extremely unusual for the Romans to have targeted druids if they were indeed just clerics. Across the empire, Romans didn't care about different religions and left it alone for people to worship whatever (even to the point of inscriptions on temples being used to honor multiple gods at once). They went after the druids because taking out the intelligencia historically removes the people who care to rebel or dissent. Normal folks wouldn't have cared unless stirred up, etc I also can't help but cite "Motel of the Mysteries" where archeologists 2000+ years later look back at the 1980s US and decide toilets were used as ways to commune with gods by putting your head *through* the seat

Michael M

Can anyone with more of an engineering background go in-depth on how simple machines can do all of this? For example, I know you can get a mechanical advantage of 4:1 with just two carabineers and some rope to make a double pulley (Note: DO NOT do this unless necessary; carabineers aren't rated for that. I don't want someone falling off a cliff face). So say lifting a 2000 pound stone would require only 500 pounds of force (easily achieved by a group of people or a draft animal, etc). I assume levers can handle the positioning / standing up portion. Sledges and draft animals can handle moving the stone (or rolled over lumber like Easter Island). I assume from ego we give ancient peoples too little credit (vestiges of enlightenment exceptionalism.....). Even things that could be apocryphal like Archimedes's anti-naval defense crane, I want to believe even if it was exaggerated :)

Dinkleberg65

The construction almost has the same vibe as some of the t-shaped pillars found at gobekli tepe minus the intricate carvings on the stones and i think stonehenge might be larger stone blocks but still crazy that theres just as much mystery behind both

Chrismayn

alfredo said he would have f u money and basically turn into kanye

Zarathustra

It was Ancient Aliens!!! Pyramids Ancient Aliens, Machu Pichu also Ancient Aliens. I had to get my History Channel fake news out.

Quirine de Jonge

I don't know why the 'why' is such a huge question. Humans have been building big things for millennia, already had been when Stonehenge was built, usually as temples/places of worship. People spent centuries building cathedrals in the middle ages. Projects like those also brought people together and gave them a shared sense of purpose. The why is much easier to answer than the how, IMO. Stonehenge was probably a religious gathering place, centered around the solstices.