Stonehenge Decoded

On Salisbury Plain in southern England stands an awesome arrangement of stones that has been the subject of countless studies, poems, and legends dating back beyond the days of King Arthur and his court. What did this somber group of stones signify to its architects? Was it a city of the dead? A Druid altar of sacrifice? A temple to the sun? It took the 20th Century, an astronomer, and computer techniques to unravel the ancient mystery. Gerald S. Hawkins was the first one to make a solid case for Stonehenge being an astronomical observatory and the first to debunk the heavy Druid blood sacrifice myth.