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The Moon in Ancient History
land town of Carnac, in the Morbihan region of Brittany,
where there are almost four thousand megaliths arranged
in a variety of configurations. They date from around 5,000
to 2,500 BC. There are long ranges of standing stones
planted strategically into the ground in parallel alignments.
Some have speculated that these stones served as astrological
systems, Druid temples, calendars or ancient
astronomical observatories and many ascribe a precise astronomical
orientation to the alignments. There are also
table-like arrangements, dolmens, believed to be funeral
monuments, with passageways linking the world of living
with the world of the dead.
In Salisbury, southern England on the River Avon, is
Stonehenge, the most famous of all megalithic monuments.
These megaliths consist of four concentric ranges of
stones. They could be as old as 20,000 years - dispute as
to their age still ensues. It is thought that Egypt may have
been occupied for 600,000 years, perhaps putting the Great
Pyramid back to about 300,000
years old. If so, then Stonehenge,
which is exactly half the
Pyramid in its dimensional ratios,
could be as old as that also.
Ancient Britain at one time had
the same standards of measurement
as the Egyptians; including
fathoms, leagues, miles,
feet and also cubits, rods, and
reeds - the last three which have
been lost in Britain for many
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