Stonehenge, that awesome arrangement of stones on
Salisbury Plain, has been the subject of countless studies,
poems, and legends dating back beyond the days of King
Arthur. What did this sombre group of stones signify to
its builders ? Was it a city of the dead ? A Druid altar of
sacrifice ? A temple to the sun ?
The dramatic decoding of the mystery began when
astronomer Dr. Gerald Hawkins decided to investigate the
peculiar arrangement of stones and holes at Stonehenge.
He stood at each position and measured its various align-
ments. Then he fed his measurements and the relevant
astronomical data into a computer.
All the evidence indicated that Stonehenge was a sophisti-
cated and brilliantly conceived astronomical observatory,
used by three different groups of people over a 400-year
period beginning around 1900 B.c.
As Dr. Hawkins recreates his dramatic discovery, he
tells of the mythology that has grown up around Stonehenge
and of the remarkable techniques that were used to bring
stones across 100 miles of sea and land to their present site.
GeraM S. Hawkins is Professor of Astronomy at Boston
University and a research associate at the Harvard College
Observatory.
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