After leaving Hampton Palace, we traveled through the English countryside to Stonehenge. The approach was breathtaking. We took an audio guided tour of the Monument and learned so much. We had 2-1/2 hours there, but it wasn’t enough. We barely saw the exhibits. I remember when I was there in 1965 that we could walk among the stones. Now visitors are kept to a path around it.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire, England, built in stages between 3000 BC and 1500 BC. It consists of massive local sarsen stones and distant Welsh bluestones, aligned precisely with the movements of the sun. Stonehenge is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a key window into prehistoric engineering, ritual life, and social organization. Its construction required extraordinary coordination, labor, and knowledge — all without metal tools, wheels, or written language.
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