Stonehenge Monument on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. Click below to read more about the great mystery and majesty that surround Stonehenge! (📷 Mansell/LIFE Picture Collection) LIFEMagazine Stonehenge TravelTuesday
Dmitri Kessel/Life Pictures/ShutterstockCalling Stonehenge a “monument,” as most books and tourist guides do, is a bit like calling the Grand Canyon a hole in the ground. Both descriptions are, from a literal standpoint, accurate, but neither manages to encompass the fascination they instill.
Was Stonehenge a place of worship? Probably. A kind of massive, three-dimensional calendar? Maybe. A pilgrimage site for the sick? Perhaps. A beacon for extraterrestrials?say with certainty about Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon, Egypt’s pyramids, Machu Picchu, the Brooklyn Bridge and other natural and human-made wonders is that, in their presence, the imagination is likely to stir.
But that, too, is part of the profound allure of these places: having fallen into ruin, they still possess a genuine grandeur.Here, thousands of years after its first stones were erected on England’s Salisbury Plain, LIFE pays tribute with a single photograph to the structure itself, and to the long-vanished people who envisioned and built Stonehenge.
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