How did the Stonehenge creators cut out the blocks of rock?

How they cut the stone isn't the most intriguing question about the Stonehenge. You see, the original techniques used to cut stone without machinery is very well alive today. read more

Of course with the size of the bluestones, that is Stonehenge, it would of been a very long and hard job to “cut” them, so to speak. Anyways, as I was saying. The most interesting thing about the Henge, isn't the mining of the stone, but its transportation. read more

With a team of oxen, the researchers estimate, Stonehenge’s creators could have transported the massive rocks some 10 miles a day, taking roughly two weeks to make the trek from the Preseli Hills quarry to the construction site in England. read more

Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead. read more