Stonehenge. Health spa or burial site? A place of human sacrifice or a temple for religious rites? These long held queries may soon be answered by Tim Darvill and Geoff Wainwright.
The two archaeologists and a team of experts are in the process of carbon dating the site. Stonehenge was erected some 5,000 years ago, but the huge standing stones mark the existence of a mysterious older site buried underneath.
Most scholars believe that Stonehenge was a scared site, a place of burial or a symbolic gateway between the living the and dead.
Darvill and Wainwright take a different view. During their 14-day dig, the two experts hope to gather enough evidence to support their own theories: that according to folklore, the standing stones had health-giving powers, and that far from being a place of the dead, Stonehenge was a site of pilgrimage for health and well-being.
* Darvill and Wainwright’s theory
* Yahoo Archaeology great photos, Darvill/Wainwright
* BBC Science great Timewatch video of Stonehenge
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