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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Let's delve into the mysteries and marvels of ancient engineering, including the most reasonable explanation of how Stonehenge was built.
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| 0:00.0 | On the outskirts of the city of Salisbury, England, there's a pretty unassuming series of rolling fields that stretch as far as the eye can see. |
| 0:10.7 | Aside from a few grazing sheep, there's nothing much here, except jutting out of one of these fields is a bizarre monument that dates back some 5,000 years. |
| 0:23.8 | This is Stonehenge, one of the last remaining relics of England's mysterious ancient past. |
| 0:30.7 | It's a monument that consists of an outer ring of 13-foot-tall Sarsen standing stones, |
| 0:36.8 | weighing around 25 tons, the equivalent of a large |
| 0:40.2 | fire truck. Each, and the smaller blue stones in the middle aren't actually that much smaller |
| 0:46.6 | weighing between two and five tons, which is still a couple of cars worth of rock. |
| 0:53.5 | But here's the thing. |
| 0:55.5 | 5,000 years ago, there was no heavy machinery like cranes or excavators. |
| 1:01.4 | There's no other structures nearby or big trees that could have been used for leverage. |
| 1:06.3 | So these had to have been lifted into place by hand. |
| 1:11.9 | But how? |
| 1:13.4 | It was a question that had historians scratching their heads for decades. |
| 1:18.1 | That was until one man set out to solve this problem, in his backyard. |
| 1:24.3 | And as he was doing so, he made a shocking discovery, one that would change how we understood ancient engineering forever. |
| 1:32.7 | Intrigued? |
| 1:33.5 | Well, grab your hard hats, because we're going to take a look at the secrets he uncovered, along with even more ancient engineering marvels. |
| 1:42.9 | You're listening. |
| 1:43.9 | You're listening to be amazed. marvels. |
| 1:59.6 | Now, Stonehenge is located on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. However, the man who channeled his efforts into recreating it in his own |
| 2:02.7 | backyard lives across the pond in Lepere County, Michigan. Meet Wallace T. Wallington, |
| 2:09.6 | a former construction worker with one heck of a name who became massively obsessed with |
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