Wonders of The World

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• The Longest Natural Arch
• Manuscripts of a Bygone Age NEW
• Sanchi's Great Stupa
• The Brooklyn Bridge
• The Oldest Known Shipwreck
• A House Under The Ocean
• Telescope Atop a Volcano
• Britain's Treasure Trove
• The Dare-devils of La Quebrada
• The Chunnel
• The Tallest Living Things
• An Island Comes to life again
• The Skeleton Stretch
• The Glowing Caves
• The Great Shells
• The Mighty Corridor
• Drawings in the Sand
• The World's largest Flower
• The Swaying Minarets
• The Screaming Skull
• A Tower of Perfection!
• Ajanta
• World's Highest Capitals
• The Ziggurat of Ur
• The Oldest Footprints
• The smallest country
• Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
• Mountain of Light
• A Piece from the Past
• Crop Circles
• Cleopatra’s Needle
• The Oldest Throne
• Giant Waves
• The Lord's Arch
• A Mad King's Dream Castle

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The Great Stones

On Salisbury Plain in England there stands a circle of huge stones, the remains of an ancient and mysterious monument now known as Stonehenge.
Originally there were two circles of stones with some stones in the centre arranged in the form of a horseshoe. The outer circle had a diameter of 30 m (100 ft.).
Each of the 30 stones of the outer ring weighed 25 tonnes and stood 4.11 m (13.5 ft) high. They were surmounted by massive lintels weighing 7 tonnes!
How such massive stones were erected without machinery and what the monument was built for is not yet fully understood.

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Last updated on :9/8/2003