The mystery of Stonehenge may have finally been solved by researchers who say it is a giant solar calendar that may link the United Kingdom to ancient Egypt.
According to SkyNews, Professor Timothy Darvill, of Bournemouth University, concluded that the monument was created based on a 365.25-day solar year to help people keep track of days, weeks and months.
The weeks were ten days and the months were longer than we are used to today.
“Such a solar calendar was developed in the eastern Mediterranean in the centuries after 3000 BC. and was adopted in Egypt as a Political Diary around 2700 BC. “It was widely used at the beginning of the Old Kingdom around 2600 BC,” he said.
It is possible that the diary kept by Stonehenge was influenced by one of these cultures.
Stonehenge’s location is aligned with the summer solstice sunrise and winter solstice sunset, which has long prompted people to suggest that it is a kind of calendar, said Professor Darvill.
The outermost part of Stonehenge – a circle of 30 standing sarsen stones – was built around 2,500 BC.
Professor Darvill relied on this knowledge by analyzing the stones and comparing them with other calendars of this period.
“The proposed calendar works in a very simple way,” he said.
“Each of the 30 stones in the sarsen cycle represents a day in a month, which is divided into three weeks each of 10 days.”
The characteristic stones in the circle mark the beginning of each week, and the pattern also reflects one transition per day every four years – characterized by the four station stones outside the sarsen circle, of which only two remain.
A five-month month was entered in the calendar to harmonize with the solar year – represented by the five trillions in the center of the site.
Trilith is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones that support a third stone placed horizontally at the top.
Aligning the calendar with the sun means that any errors in counting the days will be easily perceived as the sun would be in the wrong place during the summer and winter solstice.
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