Pictures taken by Jenny
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Since I have posted our visits to ruins of Manchu Picchu in Peru and Khmer Temples in Cambodia, I thought I would add another World Heritage Site: Stonehenge, England.
We visited Stonehenge as part of our fall 2006 Ireland trip with my sister Frances and her husband Dr. Jan Creech. Jenny & I continued on to Scotland and England while Frances and Jan returned to the States. After a beautiful trip to Scotland and a stopover in the historic town of York, we then continued on to London where we made a trip down to Salisbury and Stonehenge.
Much is known about the Manchu Picchu and the temples the Khmer Rulers built, but there is a great deal of disagreement as to exactly how the Stonehenge site was built, who built it, why it was built and exactly when it was built, although most archaeologists place the date of the current ruins around 2500BC. However, some work using wood was probably constructed a couple thousand years earlier.
But the amazing aspects of this is how did they get these huge stones, weighing upwards to 6-8000 pounds and which could have come as far away as 150 miles, to the site and then erected them. And of course, what we saw and the pictures I’m posting today is just a small part of the original site. As beautiful as it is today, think of what it looked like a thousand or so years ago!
This is a wonderful, historical place and well worth visiting.
We visited Stonehenge as part of our fall 2006 Ireland trip with my sister Frances and her husband Dr. Jan Creech. Jenny & I continued on to Scotland and England while Frances and Jan returned to the States. After a beautiful trip to Scotland and a stopover in the historic town of York, we then continued on to London where we made a trip down to Salisbury and Stonehenge.
Much is known about the Manchu Picchu and the temples the Khmer Rulers built, but there is a great deal of disagreement as to exactly how the Stonehenge site was built, who built it, why it was built and exactly when it was built, although most archaeologists place the date of the current ruins around 2500BC. However, some work using wood was probably constructed a couple thousand years earlier.
But the amazing aspects of this is how did they get these huge stones, weighing upwards to 6-8000 pounds and which could have come as far away as 150 miles, to the site and then erected them. And of course, what we saw and the pictures I’m posting today is just a small part of the original site. As beautiful as it is today, think of what it looked like a thousand or so years ago!
This is a wonderful, historical place and well worth visiting.
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