Almost a million people a year flock to Stonehenge to marvel at the mysterious prehistoric monument. But what if those massive bluestones were just the foundations of an enormous platform where worshippers came to perform religious ceremonies? That's the intriguing new theory put forth by Julian Spalding, a British art critic and former director of some of the UK's leading museums, who says the long-lost platform would have made Stonehenge a kind of "mecca on stilts." "All the great raised altar...
Stonehenge May Have Been An Ancient 'Mecca On Stilts,' Critic Says
The Huffington Post - 16 Mar 2015 21:33
Almost a million people a year flock to Stonehenge to marvel at the mysterious prehistoric monument. But what if those massive bluestones were just the foundations of an enormous platform where worshippers came to perform religious ceremonies? That's the intriguing new theory put forth by Julian Spalding, a British art critic and former director of some of the UK's leading museums, who says the long-lost platform would have made Stonehenge a kind of "mecca on stilts." "All the great raised altar...
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