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PHOTOGRAPH BY REUBEN WU
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What came over these people? In as little as a century, without metal tools or the wheel, they erected Stonehenge—and many of southern Britain’s huge stone circles and grand avenues of standing stones.
Was it religious zeal, bravura, a sense of impending change? “It was like a mania sweeping the countryside, an obsession that drove them,” archaeologist Susan Greaney tells us in the cover story of August’s edition of National Geographic.
At the heart of the 4,500-year-old mystery: Which vanished people built this? And why go through the trouble to create Stonehenge—and an array of equally mysterious monuments, some even grander?
Read the full story here.
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