Submitted by Meral Crifasi on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 12:04
Are you one of the romantic ones who adores red roses, champaigne and celebrates Valentines Day by doing something quite extraordinary? Here is a chance for you to do something absolutely stunning... and freeand really it doesn't need to be Valentine's Day for a real romantic. Take your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend or partner somewhere truly special this year - Stonehenge Virtual.
Stonehenge is one of the most amazing, and spiritual, ancient sites in the world, and a fantastic venue for fine dining - William Stukely famously ate out on top of a lintel stone in 1723. Since then, it's become a little more tricky. The stones are protected and one can not get too close to them.
But for one special night only in Stonehenge Virtual you can have a private candle-lit virtual dinner with your loved one with live music (for more ideas of how to spend your time at the stones read this top 10).
For Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, it all began with a walk last summer. Mason conducts work at the Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery, out in the Syrian Desert. It’s still in use today by monks. The finds at the monastery date mainly to the medieval period and include some beautiful frescoes.
“I went for a walk into the eastern perimeter,” he said - an area that hasn’t been explored by archaeologists. What he discovered is an ancient landscape of stone circles, stone alignments and what appear to be corbelled roof tombs. From stone tools found at the site, it’s likely that the features date to some point in the Middle East’s Neolithic Period – a broad stretch of time between roughly 8500 BC – 4300 BC.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 18:27
Mix two parts legend to one part myth, sprinkle some facts and grill for a few decades: the London Stone is London's enigmatic emblem, tightrope-walking over a sea of mystery and romance from its ersatz home on one of the city's busiest commercial streets.
Pytheas was a Ancient Greek geographer, navigator, astronomer and explorer during the 4th century BC. Pytheas was from the Greek colony of Massilia, which is modern day Marseilles. He explored the Atlantic coasts of Spain and France,and in about 325 BC he made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe, travelling around and visiting a vast part of Great Britian. Pytheas made the earliest report of Stonehenge, and was the first person on record to describe the Midnight Sun, Polar Ice and to study alternative cultures such as the Germanic tribes. He was also the first person to state that the tides of the sea are controlled by the moon.
The Winterbourne Stoke Barrows is the earliest burial mound in the group of the long barrow. It was built between 4000 and 3200 BC, thus making it earlier than Stonehenge. The barrow is well preserved, including the side ditches, which can be seem clearly. The barrow was used for several burials for thousand years, and archaeological excavations have shown that a primary burial at the north eastern end of the barrow is dated to the Bronze Age.
The Avenue, which forms part of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, was first recorded by William Stukeley in 1740. The date of its construction is unknown, however evidence suggests that The Avenue was built in two separate stages, firstly in the Neolithic period and the second phase alongside Stonehenge.The early parts of the Avenue are almost invisible on the ground and now only the final section is visible.
The Stonehenge Cursus, otherwise known as the Greater Cursus, is a large neolithic monument next to Stonehenge, Wiltshire. The Cursus is approximately 3km long and between 100 and 150m wide. In 2007 archaeolgical excavations dated the construction of the earthwork to between 3630 and 3375 BC. Thus, the Cursus is serveral hundred years older than Stonehenge, with its earliest phase dating back to 3000 BC.
Are you one of the romantic ones who adores red roses, champaigne and celebrates Valentines Day by doing something quite extraordinary? Here is a chance for you to do something absolutely stunning... and freeand really it doesn't need to be Valentine's Day for a real romantic. Take your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend or partner somewhere truly special this year - Stonehenge Virtual.
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