One of the most common things we hear about Stonehenge is that we don't know how the

ancient people cut and transported and lifted such enormously heavy stones.

Well actually we do know nearly all of that, with some of the details being ambiguous.

The fact that we don't know everything doesn't mean that we know nothing at all, which

is how the alternative historians generally try to portray it.

So what do we know about Stonehenge?

Well we're going to find out up next on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Stonehenge and the scope of uncertainty.

Today we're headed back in time to the green sloping plains of southern Great Britain,

where a great circle of ancient standing stones has fascinated us since before recorded

history.

Stonehenge is not only one of the most recognized landmarks in the entire world, it is also

the focus of pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and new age mysticism.

Today we're going to look at the Stonehenge myths, not in the context of debunking them,

but from the perspective of characterizing the scope of what remains unknown about this

most iconic of all monuments.

Questions about Stonehenge that we often hear are, who built it, when and why?

You may well have heard the popular legend that Merlin the Magician directed magical giants

to lift the mighty stones to create it.

A story that comes from a fictional text written by Jeffrey of Monmouth around 1136 CE.

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