We've Finally Solved These Big Mysteries From The Ancient World

The worlds of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Celts, and other once-great civilizations are fascinating to modern minds partly because all they accomplished without our technology. How did they do it? Here are some of the answers.

Stonehenge, the prehistoric ring of standing stones on England's Salisbury Plain, is one of the great mysteries of the ancient world, in part because the questions surrounding it hit on the classic "five W's and an H" line of questioning: Who built it? What does it mean? Where did these rocks come from? When was it built? Why did they do it in the first place? How did they get these giant rocks over there anyway?

It's like a three year old designed Stonehenge as an excuse to let loose.

Fortunately for the sake of your itchy brain, researchers have made strides in answering at least one of those questions. According to scientists who know these sorts of things, evidence suggests that at least some of the stones used to construct Stonehenge came from quarries in Wales, some 180 miles away.

Apparently in these quarries, slabs of stone are already mostly vertically oriented, and so dragging these "ready-made" blocks out of the Welsh quarries for almost 200 miles was easier than carving stones out of a more local source.

And it would have been even easier if they had just made it 18 inches tall instead!

Watch the video for more about These Big Mysteries From The Ancient World We've Finally Solved!

#History #Mysteries #Stonehenge

Stonehenge | 0:13
Roman concrete | 1:12
Norse code | 2:34
The honeycomb skull | 3:36
The Nazca | 5:00
The Antikythera | 6:09
The lost army | 7:18
Easter Island | 7:49
The Palmyra Desert | 8:44
The pyramids | 9:27

Read Full Article: https://www.grunge.com/155709/mysteries-from-the-ancient-world-that-have-been-solved/