Photo: Stonehenge Was Cemetery First and Foremost, Study Says

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Stonehenge is silhouetted against night clouds set aglow by lights from nearby Amesbury town in an undated photo from a June 2008 National Geographic magazine article.

Newly dated human remains from the tonehenge site suggest it was a burial ground from its beginning, about 5,000 years ago, to its zenith.

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Photograph by Ken Geiger/National Geographic magazine

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