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Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...
Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge. The sunlight shining through a trilithon at Stonehenge. The silver ratio relationship between Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid and the Equator. The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge has long been studied for its possible connections with ancient astronomy. The site is aligned in the direction of the sunrise of the ...
Manhattanhenge. Manhattanhenge, also called the Manhattan Solstice, [1] is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims to have coined the term, by analogy with Stonehenge.
A giant helps Merlin build Stonehenge. From a 14th-century manuscript of the Brut by Wace in the British Library (Egerton 3028). This is the oldest known depiction of Stonehenge. Many early historians were influenced by supernatural folktales in their explanations. Some legends held that Merlin had a giant build the structure for him or that he ...
The Sun rising over Stonehenge on the morning of the Summer Solstice (21st June 2005). A crowd of between 14,000 and 19,000 people watched the sunrise from the ground, along with three paramotor pilots who watched the events from the air. This photograph was taken a couple of minutes after sunrise, and a little to the right of the solar ...
The rising Sun illuminates the inner chamber of Newgrange, Ireland, only at the winter solstice. Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary [ 1 ] or multidisciplinary [ 2 ] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their ...
Many interpretations prefer an astronomical explanation for the purpose of the holes although this is by no means proved. It was formerly thought that when the Aubrey holes were first dug, the only standing feature at Stonehenge was the Heelstone, which marked the point of the midsummer sunrise, viewed from the centre of the henge.
The Q and R Holes are a series of concentric sockets which currently represent the earliest known evidence for a stone structure on the site of Stonehenge. Beneath the turf and just inside the later Sarsen Circle is a double arc of buried stoneholes, the only surviving evidence of the first stone structure (possibly a double stone circle ...