A twopart documentary about Britain's most famous historical landmark, Stonehenge. Four thousand years ago our ancestors built a mysterious and enigmatic monument and we still don't know why. It's been said that every age gets the Stonehenge it desires or deserves. The Victorians saw it as a sacrificial altar to the druids. In the hippy 1960s it was a complex astronomical calendar or even an alien landing strip. This film examines a controversial new theory that Stonehenge was the site of a symbolic sexual act between a God and a Goddess an act which can be witnessed at the monument every year at the Midsummer Dawn. Physicist Terence Meaden calls his theory 'The Marriage of the Gods' a fertility celebration. Who were the builders of Stonehenge? And how did they build it? In this film musicians, scientists and an archaeologist experiment with sound effects to try and understand how our ancestors might have used their greatest monument.
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Four thousand years ago our ancestors built a monument and we still don't know why. It's been said that every age gets the Stonehenge it desires or deserves. The Victorians saw it as a sacrificial altar to the druids. In the hippy 1960s, it was a complex astronomical calendar or even an alien landing strip. This film examines a controversial new theory that Stonehenge was the site of a symbolic sexual act between a God and a Goddess an act which can be witnessed at the monument every year at the Midsummer Dawn. Physicist Terence Meaden calls his theory "The Marriage of the Gods" a fertility celebration

This film was first broadcast: 30 Dec 1998

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