Volume 6, Number 11 · June 23, 1966
Stonehenge in Darkness
By R.J.C. Atkinson
Stonehenge Decoded
by Gerald S. Hawkins, in collaboration with John B. White
Doubleday, 202 pp., $5.95
Of all the great monuments of antiquity, none except the Great Pyramid has aroused more speculation than Stonehenge; and it is still, because of its unique character, one of the major puzzles of prehistoric Europe. However, as a result of excavations in 1919-26, and again in 1950-64, some things can be said with confidence, if not with certainty, about who built it, and how, and when.
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