Monday, March 10, 2014
Stonehenge’s Stones Can Sing
Roughly 5,000 years ago, a group of people, for some reason, dragged massive stones 140 miles from Wales to Wiltshire, England, arranging them in a series of concentric circles to create Stonehenge. For years, we've been trying to figure out what was remarkable enough about these rocks to make the long-distance journey worth the effort—particularly the massive bluestones, which at ten feet long and weighing four tons, must have been truly special to justify bringing them all that way.
In a new study, says the Bath Chronicle, researchers think they've figured out why these stones were favored.
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