Stonehenge is a monument of remarkable complexity that captivates onlookers with its magnificent megalithic circle and 'horseshoe' design, constructed around 2600 BC. Throughout history, various hypotheses have been proposed regarding the significance and purpose of Stonehenge. Currently, however
Stonehenge is a monument of remarkable complexity that captivates onlookers with its magnificent megalithic circle and “horseshoe” design, constructed around 2600 BC.
This is, of course, very far from saying that the monument was used as a giant calendrical device, as instead has been proposed in a new theory published in the renewed Archaeology Journal. According to this theory, the monument represents a calendar based on 365 days per year divided into 12 months of 30 days plus five epagomenal days, with the addition of a leap year every four.
Second, is numerology. Attributing meanings to “numbers” in a monument is always a risky procedure. In this case, a “key number” of the alleged calendar, 12, is not recognizable anywhere, as well as any means of taking into account the additional epagomenal day every four years, while other “numbers” are simply ignored .
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