Stonehenge is one of the most iconic examples of a prehistoric monument we have, but it turns out that it may be dwarfed in size by something buried underground less than two miles away. Researchers have been going over the area using ground-penetrating radar and other non-invasive technologies for the past few years and their data seems to show a major new stone monument.
“Our high resolution ground penetrating radar data has revealed an amazing row of up to 90 standing stones a number of which have survived after being pushed over and a massive bank placed over the stones,” professor Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection (LBI ArchPro), said in a release. Continue reading “Huge, newly discovered monument dwarfs nearby Stonehenge”