Stonehenge
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Stonehenge is a site in England. It is made of earth and stones standing in circles. It was built 5000 years ago and used until 3500 years ago. No one knows who built it or why they built it. During the summer solstice, the sunrise lines up with some of the stones. It is made out of a hard stone called "sarsen". In Egypt and South America, you find similar very old buildings showing as exactly solstice time. So it might have been a kind of calendar for those ancient nations. At that time, religion and astronomy were fully mixed. Dead people were buried there so it was a kind of cemetery. Some people claim that it has magic powers.
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