An Artist Visits Stonehenge in 1573 and Paints a Charming Watercolor Painting of the Ancient Ruins | Open Culture
▻http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/an-artist-visits-stonehenge-in-1573-and-paints-a-charming-watercolor-pa
#peinture #Moyen-Âge
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BBC - Travel - We may have cracked the mystery of #Stonehenge
▻http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170713-why-stonehenge-was-builtStonehenge is one the UK’s most visited tourist attractions – and one of the world’s most enigmatic ancient monuments. People come from all over the world to stare at the iconic stone pillars and wonder how, and why, they were put in place.
The site may be instantly recognisable, but there is far more to it than first meets the eye. As archaeologists study this area, mystery after mystery unfolds. But a coherent story may be beginning to emerge.
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Psych-henge : 5 American Stonehenge Knock-Offs | Atlas Obscura
▻http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/psych-henge-5-american-stonehenge-knock-offs
C’est une référence pour une future série sur l’automobile dans l’art (en fait les installations artistiques avec des Bagnoles (Cadilac Range, Beyrouth, Ramallah, etc...)
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http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/800x/14022/image.jpg Stonehenge is one of the most iconic wonders of the world (although it is not one of the official seven wonders), so it’s no surprise that it has its imitators. In fact the United States have at least five replicas of the famous standing stones. Made of junky old cars, giant foam bricks, or even just stone, these off-brand attractions attempt to bring a bit of that old druidic mystery to American soil, with varied levels of success.
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#Stonehenge bluestones had acoustic properties, study shows
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-26417976
Since the 1920s, it has been known stones quarried in Mynydd Preseli were hauled 199 miles (320 km) to Wiltshire by its makers. But, trying to establish why has been more difficult.With this study, thousands of stones along the Carn Menyn ridge were tested and a high proportion of them were found to “ring” when they were struck.
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"And there’s lots of different tones, you could play a tune.
“In fact, we have had percussionists who have played proper percussion pieces off the rocks.”
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“We don’t know of course that they moved them because they rang but ringing rocks are a prominent part of many cultures,” he said.
"You can almost see them as a pre-historic glockenspiel, if you like and you could knock them and hear these tunes.
“And #soundscapes of pre-history are something we’re really just beginning to explore.”
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‘Stonehenge is just scaffolding’ claim experts | NewsBiscuit
►http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/11/23/%e2%80%98stonehenge-is-just-scaffolding%e2%80%99-claim-expertsAfter many tens of years of investigation, the meaning behind the ancient monument of Stonehenge may finally have been discovered. Professor Mike Smith and his Oxford University team have concluded that the stones are not the final construction but just the scaffolding to allow work to take place.
‘The missing piece of the puzzle was put in place when I employed some roofers to re-tile over the bathroom and spare bedroom’ he explained. ‘They seemed keen and put up the scaffolding very quickly, but then vanished once the deposit had been paid. One evening the sunlight beamed through the metal pipework from the kitchen door to the cactus collection on the study windowsill, and I saw that this scaffolding was essentially the same structure as at Stonehenge, only not as well put together.’
After the initial discovery the team worked tirelessly to test their new hypothesis, and to work out what final structure was to have been built at the site. ‘The clues led us to the nearest comparable stone age building of Silbury Hill, and a ‘Silbury 2’ constructed on the plain would have been a towering white elephant on the scale of the Millennium Dome or High Speed Rail 2’ claimed the Professor. ‘It was essentially a huge temple to the capacity of a centralised organisation to waste millions of man hours in pointless endeavour. It was obviously planned to be a national piece of work as well – the scaffolding was produced by a sub-contractor from South Wales, which shows that the Government paid lip-service to allocating work in areas of economic deprivation 4000 years ago as well.’
‘We will never be fully sure as to why the Stonehenge hill was not completed but it is likely to have been an early impact of the current government funding cuts’ he concluded.
Professor Smith’s roof has still not been fixed.
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