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The Mystery of Stonehenge.
People have long since been fascinated by Stonehenge, an ancient assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, located in Salisbury Plain, England. They are generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple used as a religious center as well as an astronomical observatory. Famous astronomer, Carl Sagan believes that "somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" (Sagan 1). Likewise, it remains a mystery at Stonehenge how such massive stones could have been moved from the quarry at north Wiltshire by a supposedly archaic people. Some archeologists believed that these primitive people used pulleys to rearrange the stones, such as the Windmill hill people. Stonehenge followers and archeologists believe that the Windmill Hill people constructed and gave meaning to Stonehenge through their genius and primitive tools.
The creator of Stonehenge, which was built in 3100 B.C., remains a mystery to the scientific world. The alignment of Stonehenge has made it clear that whoever built it had a precise astronomical knowledge of the path of the sun. Moreover, these mystifying architects must have known before Stonehenge's construction precisely where the sun rose on a mid summers morning while standing on the future site of the .
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Monument. Thus, astronomers believe that the builders of Stonehenge and Stonehenge itself have an astronomical background and significance. Specifically, Alexander Thom, a professor of engineering and a mathematician, has shown that many sites, including Stonehenge are leaning towards the sun and moon. Thom comments that "we are dealing with the remnants of an earlier civilization, a civilization which vanished and has left behind only these few records in stone"(Thom 142).