Netherlands Unearths 4500-Year-Old Stonehenge Sanctuary.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Livescience.com
Archaeologists in the Netherlands have discovered a 4,500-year-old sanctuary that was used for burials and rituals, and whose earthen mounds align with the sun on solstices and equinoxes. The largest of the three mounds holds the remains of men, women and many children who died between about 2500 B.C. and 1200 B.C. The sanctuary doesn't have stone boulders like Stonehenge, but it appears that the largest burial mound served as a calendar that helped people mark the sun's movements. The site is about 9.4 acres (3.8 hectares), larger than seven American football fields, and includes pits and the remains of poles and buckets that were involved in cleansing rituals.