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Who Built Stonehenge?
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Who Built Stonehenge?

50 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Stonehenge stands on Salisbury Plain on a site older than the Egyptian pyramids, its 85 surviving stones weighing as much as 40 tonnes apiece. This film asks how Neolithic Britons, working with only stone-age tools roughly 5,000 years ago, moved some of those stones more than 200 miles across the Severn estuary, England's widest tidal waterway, and then raised them upright. Engineers and archaeologists test rope-and-log methods and earthwork ramps to show what that primitive technology could actually achieve. The film also examines the folklore that ties the monument to druids, the Celtic priests later writers accused of ritual sacrifice, and weighs that story against the physical evidence. Forensic scientists study human skeletons excavated near the site, reconstructing the face of one man whose bones suggest he may have helped build the structure himself. Between the engineering experiments and the facial reconstruction, the film treats Stonehenge less as an unsolvable riddle than as a problem that skeletons, stone, and physics can partly answer.