A group of archaeologists studying the renowned Stonehenge megalithic monument suggest that the entire structure was erected as an attempt to replicate a sound-based illusion. This is by far one of the most daring proposals on why one of the world's most mysterious monuments was built.
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17 February 2012
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The 5,000 year old monument is no longer considered a mystery by scientists, due to a recent discovery. Robert Ixer from University of Leicester and the National Museum of Wales has collaborated with Richard Bevins from the National Museum of Wales to indicate the source of the rocks that are now famous worldwide, th... |
19 December 2011
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Researchers at the University of Salford and the University of Huddersfield managed to conduct an interesting study of the ancient ruins of Stonehenge, in which they determined the acoustical “impulse response” the structure has. Trevor Cox, a researcher at the University of Salford, collaborated wit... |
27 August 2010
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As you all know, 2009 was the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The year is unfortunately coming to a close, but numerous discoveries were made during the past 12 months, and, more importantly, a lot of new cooperations started, or continued. Under the pretense of the IYA, many research groups joined efforts for... |
12 December 2009
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Google is plowing ahead with Street View despite all the opposition from several concerned parties and it's a good thing too, the feature is quickly becoming a huge repository as more and more cities and countries are added to the list. The program just got a huge boost with a bunch of new locations added in on... |
3 December 2009
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During the 1960s, a team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago and from the Istanbul University has come upon what they believed was a regular medieval burial place. Quickly dismissed as such, the place has caught the eye of a German archaeologist, Klaus Schmidt, who knew on first sight that there was mor... |
28 October 2008
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A chalk carved toy-like figurine representing a pig or a hedgehog was discovered lying next to the body of a child that was either stillborn or dead at a very young age, next to the Stonehenge monument. The figurine was calculated to be more than 2 millennia in age, and it appears to have been sculpted in the memory... |
23 October 2008
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A recent study on Stonehenge comes to thwart the conclusions of the preceding ones, by claiming that the monument was, in fact, not a healing center, as it was demonstrated a few weeks ago, but a cremating cemetery.This discovery provides further fuel for the century-old ongoing debate over the purposes of England�... |
10 October 2008
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Recent excavations conducted at the Stonehenge site, the first after 40 years, uncovered a series of pieces of evidence to the fact that pilgrims from all over Europe visited the monument for healing purposes. Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill based their conclusion on the fact that the skel... |
23 September 2008
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Users should prepare for an entirely new perspective over Stonehenge, courtesy of Microsoft and National Geographic. Images of Stonehenge from National Geographic will be made available to the general public bundles as a collection via Photosynth. Essentially, the Stonehenge Photosynth project will permit 3-D explora... |
19 May 2008
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