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National Geographic Documentaries - Stonehenge Decoded

Seizoen: 2008 - Aflevering: 17 / 773 - Eerst uitgezonden: 06 maart 2008 - Episode ID: 192486

As the English scholar Henry of Huntington wrote back in 1130, Stonehenge is a place “where stones of an amazing size are set up in the manner of doorways, so that one door seems to be set upon another. Nor can anyone guess by what means so many stones were raised so high, or why they were built there.” The people who quarried the immense sarsens and the smaller bluestones—the latter of which seem to have come from far away and then arranged them into a circular monument came and went many centuries ago, without leaving an explanation, either written or remembered, of how they built it or what purpose it was intended to serve. It’s not surprising, then, that the mysterious monument has spawned a wealth of theories, ranging from the mythic belief that it was fashioned by an ancient sorcerer to the notion that it was some sort of gigantic prehistoric computer. Some even have speculated that its origin is extraterrestrial. Until one such narrative is conclusively proven to be fact, it’s likely that those who stare in wonder at the structure will continue to come up with new and perhaps even stranger explanations.