Stonehenge
By Jaime Salinas
Summer solstice was today and our last stop took us to Stonehenge. Stonehenge is still to this day one of the oldest and most mysterious monuments dating back to 3000 B.C. There have been many speculations about its construction and for what purpose it was used. One of the most common speculations is that it is an ancient calendar that man used to mark the changing seasons. But if that were in fact an ancient calendar, why build only one? Another of the speculations was that it was built as a pagan ritual site to honor the gods. Ancient man would bring food or animal to sacrifice to the gods. One of the stranger speculations was that ancient man had a little help from celestial beings (aliens). But since there are no records and none have been found yet, no one will know the real reason it was built.
But why would ancient man choose to carve these big rocks and then move them from one part of ancient Britain to another? Why not build this monument at the location where they found the rocks; it would have been a whole lot easier since the wheel had not been invented yet. So why go through the trouble of moving these rocks over hundreds of miles. Then once they managed to get the rocks to the location, how were they able to put it together in such a precise way? They had some of the most basic tools, so how was it that they were able to stack - let alone stand - these rocks?
There is no way to know about the true origin of Stonehenge and the reason why it would be built out in the middle of nowhere. But you have to see it to get the feeling that pictures cannot even begin to describe.