{"id":11467,"date":"2021-06-21T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:20:40","slug":"der-stonehenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/21\/der-stonehenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Stonehenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-cruel-and-twisted-discoveries-at-germanys-stonehenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Cruel and Twisted Discoveries at Germany\u2019s Stonehenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by Candida Moss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1688,w_3000,x_0,y_0\/dpr_1.5\/c_limit,w_1600\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1624160986\/210618-germany-stonehenge-tease_bquhwv\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><br><em>Getty<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you think of Stonehenge what do you think of? England? Druids? Partygoers celebrating the solstice? A unique piece of ancient heritage? Chances are that you don\u2019t think of Germany. As it turns out, however, Saxony-Anhalt has its own Early Bronze Age wooden henge\u2014Ringheiligtum P\u00f6mmelter\u2014and recent excavations have added more detail to its dark, distinctive history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason that you might not have heard of Ringheiligtum P\u00f6mmelter is that it was only discovered in 1991. The monument, which is located near the village of P\u00f6mmelte, in the district of Salzlandkreis, was discovered when aerial photography of the region revealed the outline of the structure. Like Wiltshire\u2019s Stonehenge, it is concentric and is made up of seven rings of raised banks, ditches, and palisades in which wooden posts were positioned. If you visit the 380-feet-wide circle today you can see the attractive reconstructed monument. The painted wooden posts erected at the site give tourists a sense of what it was like in its heyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-cruel-and-twisted-discoveries-at-germanys-stonehenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TDB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Beast The Cruel and Twisted Discoveries at Germany\u2019s Stonehenge by Candida Moss Getty When you think of Stonehenge what do you think of? England? Druids? Partygoers celebrating the solstice? A unique piece of ancient heritage? Chances are that you don\u2019t think of Germany. As it turns out, however, Saxony-Anhalt has its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}