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'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig

news.bbc.co.uk — Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

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  • inactive, on 04/10/2008, -7/+410I'd laugh if it was a public bathroom
  • senorcool, on 04/10/2008, -9/+275We already knew that Stonehenge is where the demons dwell. Where the banshees live and they do live well.
  • rye425, on 04/10/2008, -6/+139I was expecting the video to be of them digging and coming across some writing. Then frantically excited they brush the dirt off and it says "made in china."
  • tokage, on 04/10/2008, -5/+111Dig-dugg.
  • snareguy17, on 04/10/2008, -4/+107First there was woodhenge and strawhenge, but a big bad wolf came and blew them down..then three little piggies were relocated to the projects.
  • nahsrocketeer75, on 04/10/2008, -9/+95I've been following this dig. Dugg for the update. Thanks.
  • theone3, on 04/10/2008, -8/+74Dig Dugg?
  • inactive, on 04/10/2008, -5/+60Stonehenge was the factory where they built the Easter Island maoi.
  • OgniAsuob, on 04/10/2008, -8/+57Dugg. Love Stonehenge! I knew before why it was built: To show off!!
  • liferainrises, on 04/10/2008, -1/+46digg should seriously have a minimum age limit.
  • Frnnkdlxx, on 04/10/2008, -3/+41NO, YOU IDIOT! It's the helipad for the space aliens from the future!

    BURIED!
  • aps234, on 04/10/2008, -1/+37...and where a man's a man and the children dance to the pipes of Pan.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38
  • xNIBx, on 04/10/2008, -0/+36All articles with an embedded bbc player get an automatic dig by me. We need more players with a knob volume that does all the way up to 11, because you know sometimes you need that extra push over the cliff.
  • Pikk, on 04/10/2008, -0/+34No No No, Stonehenge was built to center the map and provide a free monument in each of your cities. it also provides +2 Great Prophet
  • timusca, on 04/10/2008, -0/+33Negative. The only reason Stonehenge was built was to provide people of the future a nice wallpaper for Windows.

    http://www.wstaylor.net/walls/windowsxp/Stonehenge ...
  • AlphaR75, on 04/10/2008, -5/+31This is the best comment in the world.
  • Pikk, on 04/10/2008, -4/+27No No No, Stonehenge was built to center the map and provide a free monument in each of your cities. it also provides +2 Great Prophet
  • jjpertusch, on 04/10/2008, -1/+23...but, the bbc player goes to 11.
  • Berkana, on 04/10/2008, -1/+18As for how they built it without cranes and things like that, there's an amateur megalith builder who has some pretty compelling theories. He's actually built one of the three-stone arrangements by himself without the aide of power tools, using concrete castings, wood, pebbles, and things like that. No aliens necessary.

    This man can move stones weighing tons, by himself:
    http://digg.com/educational/This_Man_Can_Move_Ston ...
  • mxpx5678, on 04/10/2008, -3/+18Digg been Following the dugging. Digging are updates as dugg.
  • BurgerDST, on 04/10/2008, -0/+14Wow! That looks much bigger than it did on Spinal Tap.
  • Berkana, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13Never mind. The video link is dead, and now links to a link farm.
    Here's the youtube link of the video:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4
  • Berkana, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13What is this, some sort of cheap substitute for Rick Rolling?
  • bimtott, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13Funny, I thought stonehenge was 18" tall...
  • arcanesmile, on 04/10/2008, -0/+13  ___
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  • divrekku, on 04/10/2008, -2/+13*asplodes*
  • loquax, on 04/10/2008, -1/+12No man, it was built for a rock concert for This is Spinal Tap after they fell into the Time Rift in Cardiff..
  • SteelFrog, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10Don't tell Tom Cruise.
  • phildixon, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10Wasn't that guy using a spoon to excavate?! Was it just a regular spoon or some kind of super special archeology spoon? I know I get all excited when I get a replacement computer at work.....I bet that guy can't wait until next quarter when the new 2008 spoon models come out.
  • bosssmiley, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10Daft. Everyone knows Stonehenge was the prototype of the great British pub. The supposed 'altar stone' in the middle was actually the bar, the bluestones are where the optics hung, and the sarsen trinoliths around the edge formed the outlines of snugs and the customary big, roaring fireplace.
  • LessThan3, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10I know thats a joke, but there really is a Woodhenge near Stonehenge.
  • JerryAscione, on 04/10/2008, -1/+11I've got a 20 dollar bill that says there's a Starbucks down there.
  • exomni, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
  • durant0s, on 04/10/2008, -0/+10this is hurting my head.
  • inactive, on 04/10/2008, -0/+9Archaeology rocks! ...*Crickets*
    I love anything that has to do with archaeology, and this is a bonus too since Stonehenge is all.....mystical n what not.
  • inactive, on 04/10/2008, -1/+104000 years? Maybe 4...
  • Icebath, on 04/10/2008, -1/+10And it was built hundreds of years before the dawn of history.
  • Sokkratez, on 04/10/2008, -0/+9Isn't that what Druids teleport to?
  • captainbeaky, on 04/10/2008, -0/+8Stonehenge was constructed so that, thousands of years later, I'd be able to write...
    Diggers digg dig diggers.
  • fandyboy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+8You mean they like digging in the brown stuff with their little tools?
  • dualscreenman, on 04/10/2008, -0/+7Couldn't you just recalibrate it so that the 10 different volume levels are each just slightly louder?
  • Varadinumdotcom, on 04/10/2008, -0/+7Earth is full! Go home!
  • richardhenry, on 04/10/2008, -2/+9I dugged that dig.
  • travis1982, on 04/10/2008, -3/+9blue rocks constitutes a breakthrough? I was hoping for an actual explanation or at the very least a new theory. lame.
  • Ender008, on 04/10/2008, -1/+7Why do people do this?
  • poweribo, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6real archaeologists :P unless you wanna destroy delicate artifacts with your shovel.
  • tcpip4lyfe, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6"Ohh sweet my Stonehenge is going to be done in Washington next turn"
    Press enter to continue.
    The Egyptians have completing Stonehenge.
    "***** Egyptians!"
    Your production on Stonehenge has been turned into 403g
  • simplicityiskey, on 04/10/2008, -1/+7Let's face it folks: this is how the zombie apocalypse gets started.
  • 360news, on 04/10/2008, -3/+9I imagine most of us are very intigued as to what will be discovered.
    I have always wondered its purpose, and even visited there once.
    Can't wait --
  • theNazz, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Stone'enge... best market production value, ever!
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