Stonehenge Is Undergoing Repairs for the First Time in Decades

Notsurprisingly maintenance is an ongoing issue.  Yet i do think that all such monuments globally deserve ultimately a complete restoration to their original splender.  There is no better way to recall and honor our ancestors..

and they were our ancestors.

The big one is the Great Pyramid of course.  Yet still a small beginning.  Once we have proper access to ancient thought and enterprise, this will be a suitable task.

Stonehenge Is Undergoing Repairs for the First Time in Decades

Threatened by erosion, outdated restorations and climate change, the monument’s megaliths are in need of extensive conservation

Nora McGreevy

Daily CorrespondentSeptember 15, 2021 6:30 a.m.

The restoration project is expected to last two weeks. Photo by Ben Birchall / PA Images via Getty Images

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stonehenge-repairs-decades-monument-180978630/

Stonehenge’s famed megaliths haven’t simply stood in a circular arrangement since prehistoric people first placed them there around 2500 B.C.E. The sarsen and bluestones have actually cracked or fallen over numerous times in modern history: At the turn of the 20th century, for instance, a strong winter storm brought one of the iconic monument’s horizontal lintels crashing to the ground.

The British landmark last underwent renovations in the 1950s and ’60s, when high winds on the surrounding plains felled another historic boulder, noted English Heritage, the charitable trust that manages Stonehenge, in a 2018 blog post. But these 20th-century patch-ups no longer hold up to today’s standards. Wind and water have buffeted the stones over thousands of years, causing cracks and other structural problems, reports Michael Holden for Reuters.