Category: Cox, Gavin

(Copyright) by Gavin Cox (Powder Springs, Georgia)  Inbuilt calendar reveals ancient’s knowledge of the 365.25-day year. commons.wikimedia.orgEach standing stone (Sarsen) marked one solar day It has long been thought that Stonehenge represented an ancient calendar and was used to mark the seasons, but until recently, exactly how this was done has remained elusive. Now, Professor Timothy Darvill (of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Bournemouth University, UK) has revealed Stonehenge’s solar secrets. In a 2022 research article published in the open access Antiquity Journal, Darvill outlines how Stonehenge was erected as a “perpetual calendar based on the 365.25 solar days in a mean […]