The Stones That Remember the Sun: Stonehenge
2500 BC · event
Five thousand years ago, people with no writing, no metal tools and no wheel dragged fifty-tonne stones for miles across southern England, and arranged them so precisely that on midsummer morning the sun still rises exactly over the Heel Stone.
The smaller bluestones came from Wales, 250 kilometres away; how and why remains one of archaeology's great arguments. A temple, a calendar, a place of healing, a burial ground for a forgotten aristocracy, every generation reads its own meaning into the circle.
That is perhaps the point. Stonehenge is the oldest proof on Earth that humans will move mountains, literally, to mark time, honour their dead, and leave something the future cannot ignore.