I was just watching a YouTube post, about new investigations in the area surrounding the Stones.
For years it has been known that the setting sun, or the rising sun, during Solstices, Summer and Winter, aligns perfectly with various stones at Stonehenge. It was therefore assumed that the significance of the ancient monument was most likely calendric. But then it was decided to aim Lidar at the ground. (Lidar is a way of investigating the ground, to detect buried masses; using sound, and how the ground reflects our refracts it. I don't know much about this phenomenon, but they have discovered lots of interesting buried things using this technique.)
Well. It turns out that there is fascinating buried stuff in an enormous area surrounding the Standing Stones we have known so far. I was listening to the commentary of a woman who was reading out the text of the post. (It was a huge text, and she had to race along after a while, to get in all the material. She comes across as sedate and measured, but also excited and interested. (I wish I could narrate a text like that!)
She emphasized that many of the properties of the ancient installation were acoustical, that it was designed to amplify the voice of a speaker in a very special way, to impress, or even intimidate the audience. This creates some troubling thoughts about the whole thing. They know that many of the existing, visible stones were hauled from Wales. But it appears that one of the most important stones was brought some 700 miles from the northern tip of Scotland.
I don't want to get into the story too deep, becauseI suspect that there are all sorts of horrible things involved, such as human sacrifice, and so on. In fact I know this is the case; there is often a human sacrifice in the foundations of any fortification. It was thought that this made the edifice somehow stronger.
I seriously doubt that the spoken narration of the video was AI generated, but the information about the video seem to suggest that it is. It is possible.
Kay
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