{"id":33568,"date":"2019-02-28T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33568"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:25:05","slug":"geologists-solve-stonehenge-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33568","title":{"rendered":"Geologists solve Stonehenge mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>Five thousand years after people in the British Isles began building Stonehenge, scientists now know precisely where some of the massive rocks came from and how they were unearthed. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A team of 12 geologists and archaeologists from across the United Kingdom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/antiquity\/article\/megalith-quarries-for-stonehenges-bluestones\/AAF715CC586231FFFCC18ACB871C9F5E\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled research<\/a> this month that traces some of the prehistoric monument&#8217;s smaller stones to two quarries in western Wales.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The team also found evidence of prehistoric tools, stone wedges and digging activity in those quarries, tracing them to around 3000 BC, the era when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/visit\/places\/stonehenge\/history-and-stories\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stonehenge&#8217;s first stage was constructed.<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)Five thousand years after people in the British Isles began building Stonehenge, scientists now know precisely where some of the massive rocks came from and how they were unearthed. A team of 12 geologists and archaeologists from across the United Kingdom unveiled research this month that traces some of the prehistoric monument&#8217;s smaller stones&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}