Secrets of the Dead, The First Circle of Stonehenge

Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 10 PM

Repeats Thursday, Nov. 4, at 3 AM
 

A decade-long archaeological quest reveals that the oldest stones of Stonehenge originally belonged to a much earlier sacred site: a stone circle built on a rugged, remote hillside in West Wales. Using the latest tools of geotechnology, a dedicated team of archaeologists led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson (University College London) painstakingly searched for the evidence that would fill in a 400-year gap in our knowledge of the site’s bluestones.