My brother made a history timeline website. He has put a lot of time into it and it is coming around nicely. For all you Civilization fans and history buffs check it out.
http://historiarex.com/
http://historiarex.com/
Hastar said:3/ There is a random picture of Stonehenge in 600AD? That is a few thousand years too late, it is a prehistoric monument. coaster
He has Stonehenge listed at 2500 B.C. It is at the top of the chart with a description.
The Beaker People, or whoever first built it, didn't have writing as far as we know. So really, that parts not "history".
The Beaker People, or whoever first built it, didn't have writing as far as we know. So really, that parts not "history".
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In an legend/fairytale it was told that Merlin had (re)built Stonehenge, probably that's why.
Current age speculations are set by the data Archaeologists got ffrom diggings there - within Stonehenge, there were found a few graves.
There's an fascinating film by the National Geographic about Stonehenge, too.
In it, an Archaeologist speculates that Stonehenge was originally part of two sites with different symbolic meanings.
That would be Mike Parker-Pearson talking about Durrington Walls, a site just up the river. He's got the idea that Stonehenge was a place of the dead, while Durrington was a place to live. I've got friends who worked on that dig and, uh, consider some of his evidence a bit stretched, but it's as good a theory as any of them. Essentially, every academic prehistorian has their own pet theory and tends to ignore the others.