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Stonehenge
It's very likely that Stonehenge was used as a tribal gathering place and a center for religion, but nobody is quite sure. Of all similar monuments found in Europe, it is the most famous and attracts nearly 1 million visitors each year.
Construction on Stonehenge is thought to have begun around 2800 B.C. and lasted till 1500 B.C. It took 30 million hours and hundreds of years to complete. It was used for religious purposes until A.D. 43 when the conquering Romans abolished many Celtic religious practices. Throughout the decades the stones fell down or people took them to build other things, but scholars have an idea of what it used to look like. I couldn't find any pix of this, but the Fleishmann Planetarium in Reno has a very cool model that lights up (you can see it in their museum for free.)
Its original layout may have been used to figure out when important astrological events would occur. Ancient ceremonies were likely linked to the rising and setting of the sun at summer sostice, and the moon at summer and winter solstices.
Restoration of this cool thing began in 1922 by the British government which still takes care of it today.
Stonehenge awaiting the dawn...
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