Archive for the ‘Ancient Megaliths and Mysteries’

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    Carnac Stones
    Megaliths are great stones that are the remains of erections put up millenniums ago by the prehistoric cultures that had their home in Europe. There are many megaliths all over the world, the most famous group of megaliths is arguably Stonehenge in United Kingdom. These groups of standing stones are significant indicators of several aspects of prehistoric culture. Perhaps there are few megaliths that are as impressive as the Carnac Stones in Brittany, France. They stand upright in a group numbering close to three thousand near Carnac. The stones are of varying heights, there are stones as high as eighteen feet. Like many megalithic groups, many Carnac Stones are arranged in a pattern, in this case, neat rows. There are three main groups that can be seen with respect to arrangement. One group has over thousand large stone arranged  [...]
    Posted at March 16th, 2011 in Ancient Megaliths and Mysteries
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    Tiwanaku
    Tiwanaku is an archeological site in Bolivia in South America. It is from the pre Columbian times and is one of the most important archeological sites in entire South America. The archeological site is located in the Western Bolivia. Tiwanaku is considered by many scholars and Andean experts as one of the major cultures that existed prior to the Inca Empire, and it flourished as the administrative capital as well as where the main religious rituals took place. The major state power had its capital at Tiwanau for well over five centuries. The ancient city state of Tiwanaku has its remains in the south eastern shore of Titicaca Lake in the La Paz Dept of the Ingavi Province. The area comes under the Tiwanaku Municipality, which is located close to forty four miles (seventy two miles) to the west of La Paz. Pedro Ciezo de Leon, who  [...]
    Posted at March 9th, 2011 in Ancient Megaliths and Mysteries
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    Cerne Abbas Giant: A Splendid Carving
    Cerne Abbas Giant is also known as Rude Giant or Rude Man. It is one of England’s largest hill figures. It is 55 meters tall and 50 meters wide. The mammoth club carried by Cerne Abbas Giant stretches for 36 meters. Cerne Abbas Giant is one of the two ancient figures on the hillside in England. The other figure is that of Long Man. The image is clearly male. It is carved by numerous trenches measuring one foot in width. The trenches criss-cross the hillside of the historic Cerne Abbas village. The trenches, which had a depth of one foot, were carved out of the soil to reveal the chalk-like surface of the hill. The surface of the hill is snow white. Cerne Abbas Giant has a wonderful green background because of the grass on the hill. There has been a lot of debate regarding the figure’s origin. Most individuals believe that the  [...]
    Posted at January 3rd, 2011 in Ancient Megaliths and Mysteries
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    The Sacred Megalith – Stonehenge of the UK
    The religious places of now are well known to the world. But most of the truly sacred spaces in the world existed during the ancient times. They exist even now, but no urban life seems to be visiting them, and hence, are they not that well known to everyone. Lets take a voyage around and see one of them in detail. There are stone structures are called stone rings that exist in the Isles of the UK. The number of these stone rings, two times of the existing count, was built originally. Rather than circles, these are called rings, since they are built in slightly non-circular, elliptical shapes. More than nine hundred of them exist. Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument, is located in Wiltshire, an English country. Stonehenge is one of the most famous sites, for its sacredness, in the world. Composed of earthworks that surround a set of  [...]
    Posted at August 25th, 2010 in Ancient Megaliths and Mysteries
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    Mysterious Easter Island
    Easter Island (or Rapa Nui in Rapa Nui language which is an Eastern Polynesian language) is a distant volcanic island (164 square kilometres in area) located at the southeastern limit of Polynesia in South Pacific Ocean. Easter Island was earlier called Te-Pito – Te-Henua (Land’s end). Easter Island today is inhabited by about 2,000 Rapa Nuis, mostly in and around Hanga Roa, the capital of Easter Island and its only town. Cooks Bay is the only port of Easter Island. The Spanish name of Easter Island is Isla de Pascua. Spanish and Rapa Nui are the main official languages spoken at Easter Island. Easter Island is a special territory of Chile annexed under an agreement of September 1888.  Today, Easter Island is a World Heritage Site and much of its area remains protected under the Rapa Nui National Park. Dutch explorer  [...]
    Posted at February 24th, 2010 in Ancient Megaliths and Mysteries