It honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. And it demonstrated French industrial prowess, iron craftsmanship advanced engineering capabilities..
At this rate, I would find it startling if ancient stonework didn't have something to do with the sun, moon, and stars. Everywhere you look some ancient society was predicting these things by tracking them.
Of course the the theory is wrong:
> new investigations since the 1960s have discredited Hawkins' ideas.
Would be pretty stupid to spend all this energy erecting stones just for the view of it.
Like, it obviously had SOME purpose.
Yeah, why did they go through all that effort to build the Eiffel tower?
It honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. And it demonstrated French industrial prowess, iron craftsmanship advanced engineering capabilities..
At this rate, I would find it startling if ancient stonework didn't have something to do with the sun, moon, and stars. Everywhere you look some ancient society was predicting these things by tracking them.
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing
it was actually a doorbell
The original ring?
Alexanderthal
“The BBC, without evidence, claims that Stonehenge may have been a prehistoric computer”
The BBC does not actually claim that.
laughs in Egyptian