00:04Stonehenge is one of the UK's great archaeological mysteries however researchers now say they have
00:08figured out one new detail about the 5,000 year old religious site in the center of the ancient
00:13neolithic structure lies what is referred to as the altar stone it now rests recumbent but at one
00:19point it made a significant journey all the way from Scotland for those doing the math Stonehenge
00:24is in the south of England meanwhile the stone's point of origin is around 466 miles away quite a
00:30journey for anyone or anything 5,000 years ago let alone a stone weighing thousands of pounds and
00:36while this is the furthest any of the stones traveled to get to where they are today previous
00:40analysis has pinpointed a quarry in Wales 142 miles away where several others originated experts say
00:47they have no idea how the massive rocks were transported saying about the most recent discovery
00:51that these findings are truly remarkable they overturn what had been thought for the past
00:56century the altar stone weighs an estimated 6.6 tons meaning this changes much of what historians
01:02thought they knew about neolithic peoples namely that they may have had some means of marine
01:06transportation and that they had more sophisticated community organization
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