Stonehenge

Stonehenge was built in several stages between roughly 3000 and 2000 BCE on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The largest stones, called sarsens, weigh up to 25 tonnes and were transported from Marlborough Downs about 25 miles north. The smaller bluestones, weighing 2 to 5 tonnes each, came from the Preseli Hills in Wales — over 150 miles away. The monument's main axis aligns with the sunrise on the summer solstice and the sunset on the winter solstice, a relationship that has drawn visitors for thousands of years. A coloring sheet showing the stone circle from an elevated view.

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