The iconic silhouette of Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, showing the surviving sarsen trilithons and bluestone circle. Built in st
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The iconic silhouette of Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, showing the surviving sarsen trilithons and bluestone circle. Built in stages between roughly 3000 and 2000 BCE, this prehistoric monument is one of the most recognizable and studied archaeological sites on Earth.
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