Secrets of Stonehenge Revealed

More than ten thousand years ago ridges began to form in the landscape of what is now Wiltshire, England, a couple miles west of Amesbury. Those structures funneled snowmelt and rainwater between them. Then yearly freezing and thawing formed deep grooves that just so happen to align with the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset. So, about five thousand years ago, a powerful band of Stone Age Celts encountered that rather bizarre astronomical anomaly and they immediately attributed spiritual significance to it. After all the solstices and equinoxes were of the utmost importance to Neolithic Brits.

In 3100 BCE a royal family from Wales came to the sacred site and ordered the erection of a cemetery for the aristocracy. It started as a ring of 56 rather large blue stones that came from their old home more than 150 miles away. They were brought on oak sleds and boats and then more sleds and up and down ramps and so much more. These were then placed at one end of the strange astronomically aligned geological feature. Meanwhile dedicated laborers extended the trail all the way to the river where they erected a smaller stone circle with about half as many rocks at the other end. Thus giving rise to Stonehenge and Bluestonehenge, also known as West Amesburyhenge.

The old Welsh dynasty lasted for 500 years and in that time hundreds and hundreds of members of the…