Nabta Playa
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The first astronomical site on Earth is Nabta Playa, not Stonehenge
Stonehenge (1) is one of the most mysterious places in the world. The famous stone ring or stone calendar is not the eldest in the world. The eldest known stone ring is Nabta Playa (2)in Africa. The reason why Stonehenge is so well-known is that place is in Great Britain, which means that the place is easier to reach than Nabta Playa.
When we are thinking about the stones of Stonehenge, there is a possibility, that every area in the Druid empire sends the own stone to that stone ring. And that shows how important that project was. But when we are thinking about Stonehenge or Nabta Playa, we must realize that there could be a wood-made version about that kind of site, what the architects used to find out the right places of the stones.
Nabta Playa (about 7500 BC)
Nabta Playa is the first astronomical site in the world. That place is located in the 22.51° north, 30.73° east, and it looks like Stonehenge, but Nabta Playa is older than Stonehenge. But when we are looking at the image of that place, we might see the similarities with that African observatory and Stonehenge, and that means that the purpose of those stone rings was similar.
Sometimes I have thought that could the Stonehenge, and Nabta Playa made by the same culture, which disappeared a long time before Caesar conquered Britain. When we are thinking about those stone rings, their purpose is always the same, they were operated as a calendar, and the calendar was very important in the prehistoric time because people could see when they could begin planting, and the difference between spelt(3) and modern corn is that the spelt must put in water before planting.
Stonehenge
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So the day, when that thing was made, was one of the most important things in the ancient tribes. If some person knew that day, what guaranteed the harvest, that means the person, who had that knowledge had extremely big power in their society.
Nabta Playa was created circa 7500 BC to the neolithic period of Egypt, and the druids began to build Stonehenge about 3000 BC, and that means that those people might be the descendants of the builders of Nabta Playa, or they used that monument as the model for their monument. So that thing makes those monuments interesting.
When we are thinking about that kind of "stone calendars", we must remember, that there was somebody who invented them. The first person, who knew to make that kind of system. And here I must say that the Nabta Playa is the eldest astronomical site, what is existed, but there might be the wood-made versions before this structure.
Or at least the persons, who ordered to make those monuments must confess people, that their benefit is to take the part of that kind of project because it guaranteed the success of the plantation. And of course, that kind of place can act as the meeting point for caravans and tribes. But who made the first one of them? That is a very interesting question.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabta_Playa
(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt
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