Why Is Stonehenge Still A Mystery?

Stonehenge was built thousands of years ago, yet we still have no idea who built it and how they did it!

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[white_shadow_]

The way I see it:
3000BC, several people got together and they were like:"Let's fuck with people from the future. Let's place some large stones in circle and let them investigate it for centuries. They will never figure it out, because there's nothing to figure out." How does that sound?

[OndrikusMC]

It's killing me that no one knows
How it was made five thousand years ago
WHAT'S THE MEANING OF STONEHENGE

[Shivam_D_Singh]

Julia's neck.. look at it once and you can't look away

[adarshapandey]

I think there was an era where over sized humans (giants) ruled who constructed Stone henge.

[jaydeccook]

I have been there a few times on the summer solstice and its a breath taking place. When you walk up the hill and see it sitting on top it's amazing.

[PenitentHollow]

I hope it turns out to be a shopping mall or something.

[waltervd_oo]

what if the henges were made to troll us in the future ?

[migo]

Stonehenge was use for time traveling.

[enriquefranco]

The "blue hue" could have been an anhydrous coating used on a tartaric substance during a time period where H2 was abundant. This would explain the possibility of being able to move tons of the "stone" to specific locations in a triangle formation to assimilate volcanoes.

[frostedcornflakes]

It's just mind-boggling that something that seems very significant left no written evidence on what it's purpose was.

[Javaman]

A lot has been suggested about the purpose and meaning of Stonehenge: that it was as an astronomical calendar or computational device for predicting the equinoxes, as well as solar and lunar cycles. This is likely true and equally likely that the site served as a place for ritual worship and festivities. I would like to suggest a thought that occurred to while watching several documentaries on the subject and I emphasize it is just a thought, as I am not an archeologist. My idea is that the series of twin vertical monoliths with their lintels reminds me of the figure "pi" repeated over and over again in what type of configuration? A circle, of course. Whether this configuration is intentional or not, from my reading and audiovisual exploration of the subject, I stronly believe the ancients were certainly well-versed in mathematics and astronomy far beyond the abilities we credit them for... and most certainly beyond what is taught in schools today.

[jeremylynes]

Bit of an oversimplification regarding a very sophisticated astronomical mechanism in stone. No attempt to explain it would be complete without reference to the works of Gerald Hawkins, John Michell and Robin Heath.

[TheColaGoodfellow]

Recent discoveries have found that it's part of a group of burial shrines. That is its purpose. I'm not sure what else of a mystery there could be to it in that regard.

[Portondown]

If Stonehenge had been in any other country in the world - it would have obviously have been a ruin of a building! The biggest mystery is why million of people just copy what their told and still believe it was an open structure with alignments to the heavens. I can not imagine the people who built Stonehenge - standing in the rain?

[DyslexicGamer]

From what I've heard the modern Stonehenge was built in the 40s and 50s. Before then it was just a bunch of  stone pillars laying on the ground so they made it look like what they thought it looked like so mystery solved

[Rikusde]

Silence will fall when the question is asked- Dr Who

[sra]

It was reconstructed at least 4 times since 1800.Some "stones" are made of concrete.

[fisslewine]

I've found sites like Stonehenge are great landscape architecture, and that at times people use patterns that seem to correlate with other aspects of nature - and maybe completely unaware...I suspect Stonehenge is our first look into ancient UXD....However I've been wondering if the site is one of many symbol now being made to look like Earth?

[Randomaited]

What's it for? To mark the place where the Pandorica is.

[michaelnorton]

Seeing the sun align during the solstece makes me beleve whatever the reason for its creation and feeling the magic there during that time that the seasons was always at the heart of its creation