The series of boulders that
make up Stonehenge have long puzzled experts and provided material ripe for
conspiracy theorists.
Most pertinent is the
question: how were the stones - some weighing 50 tons - transported and
arranged to where they sit today?
Without basic transportation
technology, such as wheels (which were invented more than five centuries after
Stonehenge is believed to have been built), there is no obvious answer to how
the biggest stones were moved.
Much of what scientists do
know about the construction of Stonehenge is from educated guesses and
constantly evolving research, the newest of which suggests that in fact two of
the largest boulders that make up Stonehenge have always been “more or less” where
they sit today.
Alternatively of course,
scientists could shun the research and read Erich von Däniken’s seminal book
Chariots of the Gods?, “which makes the argument that many ancient
megastructures such as Stonehenge, the Egyptian pyramids, and the Moai heads of
Easter Island were built using know-how passed down from God-like aliens to
mankind”, says The Independent.
Though why the
extraterrestrials would pass on the knowledge of how to build Stonehenge but
not the wheel is anyone’s guess...
