A few centuries before the earliest standing stones were placed at Stonehenge, they may have stood in a circle 280 kilometres away in Wales, the remains of which have just been identified Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2267537-stonehenge-was-built-with-bits-of-an-older-welsh-stone-age-monument/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Personal solstices
Photos from EarthSky community members around the world, showing what the December solstice – bringing winter to half of Earth, and summer to the other half – means to them. Thanks to all of you for sharing these evocative images with us! Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/personal-solstices-photos-dec-earthsky-community…
‘Spinal Tap’-size Stonehenge reveals how the ancient monument really sounded
The huge standing stones in the outer circle of Stonehenge acted as an amplifier and gave reverberation to enhance speech and music in ceremonies held thousands of years before modern acoustics emerged. Source: https://www.livescience.com/stonehenge-acoustics-amplification.html