Stonehenge Mystery

                                   Why is the world the way it is? How where old monuments created? How did our ancestor manage to create anything in ancient times? All these questions unanswered fully but every question has an answer hidden. Stonehenge is a monument not yet known for which purpose it served but many theories guide it through our world. Many believed it to be younger than the Pyramids in Egypt, those were proved wrong by scientific/cultural dating. Stonehenge is composed of sarsen stones  which are big stones with a height of 20feet and weight up to 45 tons. The smaller stones being surrounded by the sarsen stones are called the blue stones, the shape these stones create might lead our theories to an answer. Stonehenge might be connected to other monuments such as Durrington Walls, rivers near by, and Stonehenge is located in Southern England. Bodies found surrounding Stonehenge have their own theory, but which ever theory you believe, it might or may not have evidence, but it will never fit together with the others.

The Theory of Aliens
It is hard to believe that stones of about 45 tons have been carried by humans for more than 137miles to a specific spot. Visitors or citizens living near by have claimed seeing UFO'S, this might just be imagination but at least some evidence. The Aliens are though of as enemies but creating a monument on our land might be a smart idea. Any how, people who don't believe in aliens have different theories.

Theory of Merlin

All these stories of people meeting Merlin the big magician helping them in life, why not pretend that Merlin could have done all the work for us? This theory is pretty similar to the alien one, Merlin with all his forces would be able to transport huge stones from any place in the world and create a monument for people to use. No matter how much more reliable this theory might seem, there isn't a lot of evidence to go with this topic.
  
The Theory of the Death
While excavations all around Stonehenge, skeletons have been discovered. Could it be a burial for ancient people? Most of the bones discovered belong to man around the age of 25-40. When royal people died they would get burned instead of buried because of beliefs. About 60 people were found dead which provides evidence of the theory, and an other 200 are believed to still be uncovered. This theory has the most solid evidence along with the astronomical theory. This theory corresponds to the evidence since Durrington Walls, a second monument, was found alined with Stonehenge and that one is believed to serve for the alive.


The Theory of the Living
 One of the Theories is the total opposite of the others. Some people believe the monument to have all the skeletons because they were killed others believe the skeletons be there for healing. Since most skeletons had an injury, we believe that they came to Stonehenge to get healed, one of the evidences why people believe this theory is because most skeletons found come from far places such as Ireland and Wales.

Astronomical Alignment
 This is probably the most complicated theory of all but comes to a conclusion that makes sense.The way all the stones fit together, there is a path going from one end to the other marking the sun set, not only this but two of the stone paths link the summer and winter saulstes. The whole point of building the Stonehenge was for it to serve as a calendar, this might be hard for some of us to believe that our ancestors were this smart but some very persuasive evidence was found.

   There are many more theories of course but these are the main ones and if you ever tend to ask someone about Stonehenge they will tell you one of the above. Who build it is a whole different story. The fact we are sure of is that Stonehenge was built in stages, who built is a whole different mystery. If you believe in the aliens theory than the aliens must have built it, but scientifically and logically we believe royal people must have built it because of their wealthiness. It might have been build by 1000 people pulling and pushing the huge stones to their place which is hardly believable but could be true, but not only that, rolling stones on wood could have also been an educated process to go through. The River Avon and Durington Walls, both connected to Steonehenge, might have something to do with theories. After all, many scientists and archaeologist have taken action on finding out more of the mystery, the whole mystery might never be discovered, but that is the fun behind it!

  In my opinion, I have never been interested in monuments and old historical events, but learning about Stonehenge has been very interesting. Because in class we have watched movies, read articles and shared everything we gathered, it was easier to understand why how and what the purpose of Stonehenge is. I think it is pretty amazing that people from the past had the knowledge to create a calendar of astronomy/place for dead/living or any other purpose it served as. And maybe soon enough, we will discover even more, we don't know how deep the deepest ocean is, we don't know why we are how we are, we don't know what came first, water or the moon, but one thing we do know, if we knew everything,there would be nothing left to discover.

Resources:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1886661,00.html
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/stonehenge/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14011-five-theories-about-stonehenge.html