It's hard to believe, but in the distant past, the legendary Stonehenge monument could not look the way most modern people used to it. The thing is that the megalithic structure only for the XX century has undergone several times of very radical and ambiguous reconstructions.
Every year the UK is visited by a huge number of tourists. A significant part of them seeks to see the widely known Stonehenge - a megalithic structure listed as a World Heritage Site. This place has many secrets, and not all the roots of these intriguing secrets go back to antiquity. There is a whole series of photos that have been kept secret for a long time. A tourist who dreamed of wandering around the stones of Stonehenge, after seeing these photos, can be very surprised and puzzled.
The photographs clearly show how the megalithic structure is made up of stones, definitely not in the distant past! In fact, there is no trick in this. One of the numerous restorations of the monument was photographed in the photo. The first restoration took place in 1901. It was then that the process of restoration of the historical appearance of the monument began. The pictures were taken by the engineer William Gouland, who worked on the project.
Restoration of Stonehenge is one of the most hotly debated topics among British historians, archaeologists and members of the public. The point is that there is still no consensus on the appearance of the monument. Scientists today can not understand how the distant ancestors of modern British transported such huge stones to this place. Proceeding from this, a number of scientists consider the step of restorers with the installation of certain stones on others extremely questionable.
It turns out that the Stonehenge, as people are accustomed to seeing it today, is highly commendable not to the ancient people, but to the industrialists of the 20th century. Many British researchers are convinced that in modern Stonehenge nothing remains of its original form. The last of the known restorations, incidentally, was held in 1963.