| Season 1 - Before The Egyptians Great Britain - Show #5  Curiously, Stonehenge was an astrological observatory originally positioned ten thousand years
ago; about 8000BC two large wooden poles were erected, aligned east-west,
and acted as equinox-sighting markers. There were many other celestial
observatories and tracking stations with permanent reference points built across Great Britain as well.
This region obviously held great importance to our ancient ancestors.
When Skara Brae and Stonehenge, among others, were abandoned in 2655BC, the town of Giza in Egypt was founded and the Great Pyramid was begun several years later in 2638BC. The current monarchy of the United Kingdom traces its ancestry back to Thorofinn, the first Norse ruler of Orkney, and it is in these northern Scottish islands we find Skara Brae today. Upon St Michael's Line, a very ancient and venerated pilgrimage route, and stretching across the longest dry-land straight line in England from Land's End in Cornwall to the coast of East Anglia in the North Sea, are found some of England's most famous prehistoric sites, such as Glastonbury and Avebury. |