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Ancient Solar Alignment Unearthed Near Stonehenge: A 5,000-Year-Old Prototype of Cosmic Engineering

A newly reported discovery near Bulford, Wiltshire, reveals the earliest known solstitial alignment in the Stonehenge landscape, radiocarbon dated to around 2950 BCE—five centuries before the iconic sarsen stones were raised. Excavated by Wessex Archaeology under the Ministry of Defence’s Army Basing Programme, the site consisted of two timber posts set 120 metres apart, creating…